Cutting Heat Transfer Vinyl By Hand

I m super excited about how it turned out.

Cutting heat transfer vinyl by hand.

If you are looking for a cricut design space tutorial on how to cut adhesive vinyl for hard goods check out this tutorial. If you have more than one color please note you need to mirror on all the mats. The wide open space of t shirt fabric gives you lots of room to maneuver and isn t too fiddly for your first time. This process will be a little bit different for every cutting machine but just make sure to choose the settings for the particular type of heat transfer vinyl you are using flocked htv will have very different settings from smooth htv for instance.

Find out more about why we have to mirror here. Verify your design is mirrored and cut your heat transfer vinyl. Adhere your heat transfer vinyl with the shiny backing side down onto your cutting mat and load into your machine. Expressions vinyl and cricut are both great places to get all of your vinyl.

Link they are my go to. Heat transfer vinyl i always buy mine from expressions vinyl aff. Hand cut heat transfer vinyl. Adjust cut settings and cut.

And it just takes vinyl scissors a star punch and a few minutes to make that s it. In this case i had yellow and the back is white. Heat transfer vinyl is often called htv or t shirt vinyl. The shiny side always goes down.

Applying heat transfer vinyl to the mat. Start with a simple one color design for a t shirt. And now i want to make one for myself. Glitter heat transfer vinyl can be tricky to weed so we d only recommend using it once you ve gotten used to it with normal vinyl cutting.

For this project you ll need. Finally adjust your cut settings to work with the material you are using.