To make the paint more flexible and fabric friendly, mix it 1:1 with fabric softener (equal parts paint and fabric softener). You can still dab it on with a sponge brush or a regular stencil brush, but it will stay soft and flexible and won't pucker up as it dries the way the blue paint did.
@@lou-anntedesco2567 it works well. I have also added fabric medium and other times thinned with water. Fabric medium works well, too. Thinning with water can leave the result washed out looking depending on how much water you use. Apply in very thin layers. Thick applications tend to get funky or crack eventually. I reccommend letting acrylic paint cure for 72 hours, then heat set it. Either press it with an iron over a pressing cloth, or pop it in the dryer turned inside out for 30 minutes on medium. When you wash painted fabrics, turn them inside out if you can, wash on gentle and use warm or cold water. If painting on stuffed items, use a white cloth and soap suds to clean, rinse with clean white cloth dipped in clear water. Air dry all psinted items. Hang clothes to dry and lay stuffed things on towels on clean window screens resting on chair backs (or seats). This helps the painting last longer, but you can machine dry inside out on medium low. They just wear and look bad faster when you machine wash and dry. Especially if you do this on the regular cycle. I used to paint my kids' shirts and some of their jeans when they were young so they had something special that no one else had or could buy. I learned a lot about painting fabrics over the elementary through high school years.
It is so you keep the centers of the a and e etc. otherwise the Cricut will cut all the way around the centers and you will either lose them or you will have to place them where they go. Hope that helps.
There should be a settings button along the top bar when editing an image or text and ot will say metric units, just turn it off. I found it on the design space app, I haven't looked on my PC yet.
