Yay! My new toy is here!!

It all started as an idea to make merit badges for the kids… How to cut out lots of nice fabric circles easily. I tried a few of my hand punches but they didn’t work very well on fabric. So naturally I had to get something over the top.

From there I re-discovered the Cricut (pronounced Cricket, who knew?) which takes very expensive cartridges. I remember when it first showed up. Seemed super pricey, and I remember Joann’s coupons didn’t apply. They still don’t. Ok, maybe that would work. I could make invitations and party favors and thank you notes too and the kids’ birthdays are coming up soon. And i can get cartridges on eBay; there’s even a Hello Kitty cartridge… Bonus! But then I discovered the Hello Kitty cartridge is discontinued and going for over $100-150 a pop on eBay. Boo! But I started to feel like I Must Have It.

Luckily, I came across a reference to this guy, the Silhouette Cameo. It’s like an Open Source Cricut… No cartridges, you can buy individual patterns, or even totally design your own. You can give it a file you printed and it will cut it out for you.
I have some plans that I don’t want to go into now. Hopefully they’ll work! I might even try to design some patterns of my own to sell. Lots of people on Etsy seem to be doing…silhouettes. Ironic and not very outside the box, considering the name.