I only have myself to blame, really
So I went to class this morning, and started to weed the cricut print.
The first half came out very nicely!
Edging went well, I didn't catch on anything. Easy peasy. The second half... not so much.
For some reason, the cricut decided to stop cutting all the way through the print at some point. So I was pulling the square edging off, and it just.... stopped.
You can see there on the corner I was trying to pry the supposed cut edge off, and it just wouldn't. It wasn't the only place either, it seemed like most of this side of the print just didn't cut through all the way. I don't know why.
Sooo I was like, "that was weird." But I printed the 2nd half again. This time I tried another print method, with the cricut going 2x over the print but not as much pressure. Hopefully the slight pulling up from the regular version wouldn't be as much of an issue with this method.
Oh boy, was I wrong. That print was shredded. All the way through the transfer plastic. Just chewed through. I had to scrape off plastic bits from the mat.
So flipped the vinyl over to print on the other side, going back to OG version. This came out well, and I got to weeding.
So.
much
weeding.
My god, the design was such a PITA to weed. I don't know if I could have made it better, because a large part was that I wasn't certain which part stayed and which was removed during the bulk of it.
I ended up laying on the couch, tweezers in one hand and my pointy stabbing weeding bit in the other, going slow section by slow section. I can't even be mad at anyone but myself since I picked this design.
My arm started to hurt from being crunched up so much, like literal hours. I'm getting old.
But eventually I got it done, and I had a fairly satisfying weed as I took all the outer layer at once. The words gave me trouble again, I don't know why cricut hates these words so much, but it does.
But its done, and I think it came out very nicely. I may layer some blue fire under the cup, I think it may look cool.
Onward!
