How to Upload a Sewing Pattern Design Space
Hullo swain stitchers and crafters!
I've written a couple of posts recently well-nigh my new Cricut 'Maker' auto (an intro / overview Hither and a guide to tools HERE) but perhaps this may be the one about useful for usa sewists; how to upload sewing patterns into Cricut's design software 'Pattern Infinite' then that the auto can cut pattern pieces out for you! I've had a skillful play with this; not but did I want to upload some of the PDF patterns I already had saved in my computer drive, merely also to upload paper patterns. So this is what I aim to demonstrate in this Post, breaking it downward into hopefully digestible stages with graphics to illustrate.
There are a couple of pointers worth mentioning before we get started with the tutorial :
- You are limited to the size of design your Cricut automobile is able to cut – its standard cutting mats are 12″ ten 12″ and the larger are 12″ x 24″ so whatsoever pattern piece volition need to fit within that framework – lingerie for example.
- Getting your Cricut to cut patterns is platonic when a) you've a lot of identical pieces to cut which demand to be accurate (e.g. quilts) or if you lot're working with a shifty fabric or weeny pattern pieces that tin can prove tricky to cut manually, or for patterns y'all program on making repeatedly. Of course, you don't need to upload entire patterns; say, if your making a shirt in something similar a shifty rayon/viscose – I tin run across myself uploading only the collar and gage pieces, or any piece where cutting accuracy is both pivotal and tricky, and letting the Cricut cut those to avoid any warping and shifting of the fabric in the process.
- Your design files (and whatsoever newspaper originals) must be clear resolution and saved/printed in Black & White (not colour and not greyscale) equally this helps create sharp clean pattern lines for your Cricut to cut
Ok, enough already – let's get started on getting your PDF and paper patterns uploaded!
How to Upload a PDF Sewing Blueprint into Cricut 'Pattern Space' :
I'm going to demonstrate using ane piece from a bra pattern. The first thing to annotation is that you cannot direct upload a PDF pattern into Design Space, and so y'all will need to convert the blueprint into a supported image-type file. Don't panic, this is easy to do!
- First, access the PDF file you want to upload in your Acrobat Reader.
- Select the 'More Tools' icon in the pinnacle toolbar and then select 'Fit on I Full Page' – this resizes the image to fit your screen to brand it ready to catechumen.
- So select and 'prune' the area of the screen that covers the pattern piece AND its exam/sizing square (I use Windows' free 'Snip and Sketch' office). With your now total page pattern image on screen earlier y'all – press the Windows Icon + Shift Fundamental + S simultaneously to bring upwardly the prototype snip function and, using your mouse, cutting out the blueprint piece image including the test/sizing foursquare box and SAVE It every bit a .jpg or .png file . (Every bit an bated, if you notice this bit a tad confusing, yous could always print out your blueprint and follow the instructions for uploading your paper patters beneath!)
- Practice this with all relevant pieces – making sure that each piece has a sizing test square adjacent to it as this is essential to correctly sizing the pattern piece once its uploaded into Design Space (if your blueprint pieces oasis't got this sizing box, print them out to scale and follow the tutorial section 'How to Upload Paper Patterns' section below first).
- Now open up Cricut Design Space and select a 'New Project' to bring upward your blank canvas screen
- Click on 'Upload' from the projects toolbar
- Keep past clicking on 'Upload Paradigm' so 'Browse' to access your newly saved .jpg or .png pattern files
- In one case Blueprint Space has retrieved the file, relieve it every bit a 'Complex' image as this allows you to clean upward and remove whatsoever areas you don't need, as well as keeping the lines sharp.
- You demand to erase all the areas which are not part of the pattern slice using the 'Select and Erase' office, and so your final prototype is but the pattern slice and the sizing square, similar this…
- Cheque the Preview screen. Do the edges expect 'clean', i.e. with no random blobs or raggedy edges? If you've used a proficient quality commercial blueprint chances are information technology's fine; if not play around with the 'Advanced Options – decrease the colour range and increase the colour tolerance.
- Click 'Keep'. Y'all are then given the choice of saving the file as a 'Impress then Cutting Prototype' or as a simple 'Cut Image'. The option is yours only I personally prefer to initially save information technology every bit a Impress and Cut; this style I can notwithstanding see the information on the pattern piece; specifically the arrow which indicates the direction in which the pattern should exist cut from your cloth (e.g. taking into account the management of your fabrics grain or greatest stretch).
- Once saved, upload information technology into your blank project canvass.
- As you will see, confronting the scale of your Blueprint Infinite canvas, your uploaded pattern slice is a bit on the pocket-sized size; here's where that sizing box comes in!
- And then, you now demand to resize the image. I find the most authentic way to do this is to create a square (using the shapes box in the left hand toolbar) the aforementioned size/calibration that your pattern pieces' sizing box is meant to be, e.m. here it should exist 1.5″. Now resize your pattern image (by clicking on the pattern piece and selecting the resizing tab on the bottom right) and elevate until the sizing box 'grows' sufficiently to accurately and precisely overlay the foursquare, like this…(recollect your sizing box and your pattern piece are conjoined at this phase, so if yous increment the size of one y'all're automatically increasing the size of the other!)
- Zoom in if you needed to ensure you lot get them exactly the same size.
- Tada! Your pattern piece should at present exist correctly sized! Next, nosotros just need to rotate it and so that the pattern pieces' grainline is going in the correct management!
- I saved all my individual bra design pieces into one canvass in this way. However, before going ahead and clicking 'Brand It', there's merely a few simple steps left to do first. It'south best to get rid of those test/sizing squares otherwise your Cricut is going to want to cut those out of your precious fabric too! Your sizing box and your pattern piece are still conjoined as one image at this phase; you need to at present split them.
- There are 2 means to do this – you tin can either 'slice' the sizing box out – as I demonstrate hither OR click on the 'Profile' option (lesser right on your screen) and contour out the sizing box. When 'slicing', I first increase the size of the ruby box and use it to completely overlay the sizing box then every bit to 'slice' it out (using the 'Slice' function), prior to deleting them both, like so…
- Now that your blueprint pieces are a) correctly sized, b) laying in the right direction and c) the sizing boxes accept been removed, we need to convert the pattern piece into a unproblematic cut file (remember nosotros kept it every bit a Print & Cut file initially in order to see the grainline fundamental!)
- If you lot look at the first image selected, you will annotation that the Linetype is 'Cut' and the Fill is 'Print'. Click on the Fill option and change it to 'No Fill'; this automatically converts the blueprint piece to a simple cut file – it will 'grey out' if washed correctly.
- One very last thing! All the blueprint pieces that you are cut out from the same fabric, change to one colour, i.e. I made the bra cups, bridge, sidebars and cradle all pink. The back ring, which is cutting from a different cloth, I changed to blue – simply as a visual reminder to make sure I knew I was feeding the correct fabric through the auto!
- AND YOU'RE DONE! You tin can at present click 'Go far' and get your Cricut to cut out your pattern for you!
And yes, y'all guessed it, in my last blog post I showed you two versions of a bra I've sewn recently; yep, I cut them both out using this very method (you can see the finished project blog post HERE). I was absolutely thrilled at the accuracy of the cutting pieces; look at this, overlaying my Cricut cutting lower cup piece confronting the printed design slice – it's perfect!
Okay, now that's all said, what if yous want your Cricut to cutting out a pattern that you simply have on newspaper?
How to Upload a Paper Sewing Blueprint into Cricut 'Design Space' :
The procedure for uploading a paper blueprint is pretty much exactly the same as uploading your converted PDF pattern files; you merely demand to go your paper blueprint files into your figurer first – you volition demand admission to a Scanner for this – if y'all don't have i available, do check out your local Library equally they are likely to have one! Full disclosure : the cease result really depends on the quality of your pattern files; they need to be high resolution and Black & White. If they're not, in one case uploaded into Design Infinite you lot may observe your line edges are not sharp – I talk about how to resolve that equally best as possible, in the instructions beneath.
- Cut out your paper pattern pieces leaving a mm or two of newspaper around the pattern line equally they need to be wholly visible for this to work accurately! Then cut out around the test square in the same way. Think, these need to be blackness and white, i.e. non printed in colour or the 'greyscale' setting.
- Put your blueprint piece on the scanner plate, face down and place your foursquare sizing box adjacent to it and scan it into your organization (preferably 1 pattern slice at a fourth dimension).
- Go ahead and browse in. My new printer/scanner allows me to choose whether to save the scanned file as either as a PDF or as a .jpg. (If yours only allows to save to PDF continue now to follow the steps in the PDF demo above). Otherwise…
- Click 'Salvage As', rename your file and choose the destination folder to save your .jpg file.
- You lot can now proceed to upload into Cricut Pattern Space from Step 5 in the PDF tutorial above. Withal, before y'all do this, it is likely that you need to 'clean up' the file. To do this, when y'all are in the 'Select & Erase' screen, click on 'Advanced Options'. This enables you lot to reduce the amount of 'visual noise' in the pattern and sharpen those line edges : reduce the colours to two and increase the colour tolerance until the image lines go equally precipitous as you lot can get them. You may even so have to manually erase around the edges of the pattern to clean them up still further – utilise the 'preview' screen to help you. Failure to clean upward the edges may mean that your Cricut will endeavour to cutting the design with all those potential miniscule jaggedy edges – not practiced!
Please, if you have whatsoever questions, or would like farther description on anything, practise let me know and I'll effort my best to answer / help!
Eek, I really need to peel myself out of this chair; it's time for another cup of tea methinks, and and then I'grand off to sew together upward some other bra!
Until next time, happy making!
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