I have a cricut but use it mostly for scrapbooking because you have iron on heat and bond or similar product to cut fabric however you do not have to buy all the cartridges you can go to their sight and but whatever pattern you want to cut then plug your cricut into your computer and cut. I do not know if it is true or not but everywhere I inquired about there paper cutting machine and asked if it really cut fabric good and was told not really it really is for paper but it will cut some fabric Hope this helps