Heat Transfer Vinyl

Hellur my crafty friends,

I wanted to drop of two t-shirts I made with Heat Transfer Vinyl.  I made both sets of t-shirts for my annual Orlando Vacation.

Recipe used: 

Prewashed T-shirts without detergent or fabric softener

Cricut Expression 2

Gypsy

Cricut Mickey Font Cartridge

Cricut Cindy Loo Cartridge

Siser Easy Weed Heat Tranfer Vinyl (pink, white, royal blue, red, black and violet) from http://www.hhsignsupply.com/productcart/pc/Siser-EasyWeed-c523.htm

Parchment Paper

Iron

Directions:
1.Created my design on my Gypsy

2.On the Gypsy remember to reverse (mirror-cut) your design

3.Place Heat Transfer Vinyl on Cricut mat, with shiny side facing down
4.On the Expression 2, I used the Kiss-Cut setting.  On the expression you can set your blade:3, pressure:3 and speed 1-2(depending how intricate your cut will be)
Note: the Kiss-Cut will not cut through the back of vinyl
5.Weed excess vinyl from your design
6.Preheat iron to “Cotton” setting, no water added
7.Lightly iron t-shirt
8.Place weeded vinyl design on T-shirt, shiny side facing up
9.Cover vinyl with parchment paper and apply light pressure of the iron
10. Gradually increase pressure for 1-2minutes and iron around design. Note move iron to prevent burning of vinyl
11.Allow Vinyl to cool for 5-1ominutes, you will know the vinyl has adhered to the t-shirt when the plastic
(shiny covering) of vinyl easily peel off

For Layering
Follow the above steps
12. Allow vinyl to completely cool off
13.Cover any areas with tape or paper that is not being layered
14. Apply layered pieces vinyl to desired areas, remember the shiny side of vinyl should be facing up
15.Cover vinyl with parchment paper and apply light pressure of the iron
16. Gradually increase pressure for 1-2minutes and iron around design. Note move iron to prevent burning of vinyl
17.Allow Vinyl to cool for 5-1ominutes, you will know the vinyl has adhered to the t-shirt when the plastic
(shiny covering) of vinyl easily peel off



Hope you enjoyed, and thank you for stopping by,
~~`Netta~~

Tye Dye T-Shirts

Hellur my crafty friends,

 I started this post in July and did not have to chance to finish it.  I have made three different types of t-shirts this summer, Tye-Dye, Heat Transfer Vinyl and Silk Screen. 

Here is my Mickey’s Tye-Dye Tshirt

Recipe used:

Prewashed T-shirts

Tulip One Step Tye Dye Kit (blue, red, yellow, green, black, purple and fushia)

Plastic gloves (some comes in kit)

Rubber bands (some comes in kit)

Wax dental floss
Cricut Mickey Font Cartridge

Freezer paper

Rubber bin

Plastic bags

Directions:
Mickey Mouse Head Tye-Dye:
1. Pre-washed t-shirts without detergent or fabric softener

2. Cut freezer paper Mickey Head from Mickey Font Cartridge to trace outline

3. Next, used wax dental floss to sew around the center of the t-shirt

4. Next, pulled the dental floss tightly; for a clear and well defined, puckered Mickey shaped head (picture)

5. Next, placed rubber bands underneath the Mickey head to get a good border around Mickey’s head

6. Soaked the T-shirts in cold water for 6hrs (you can soak with soda ash and soak overnight)
7. Next, squeeze out the water and spread t-shirt out on table with Mickey’s head facing up

8. Next, taking the Mickey’s Head in hand, twist the t-shirt similar to a circular (cinnamon) bun. You may have to straighten out tsirt while you are twisting.

9, Once the t-shirt is in a circular bun, place rubber bands to hold in place (this will also make designs from the dye). I used four rubber bands per t-shirt

10. Next, turning the t-shirt upside down, first tye-dye the Mickey head black staying away from sectioned off rubber bands

11. Next, place t-shirt down, using multiple colors, tye-dye the rest of tshirt following the direction of circular bun

12. Separately wrapped sealed each t-shirt and placed in rubber bin for 24hrs

13. After, achieving the desired colors, I rinsed out t-shirts with cool water.  Rinsed Mickey Head (black dye) first to prevent contamination, then rinsed out the rest of dye

14.  Then, separating like colors, run them through the washing machine on cold water cycle. I placed an old towel in the wash to pick up any excess dye.
15. Lastly, allow each t-shirt to air dry

I will discuss the Heat Transfer (iron-on) vinyl in next posting,

 

Hope you enjoyed, and thank you for stopping by,

~~`Netta~~