Cutting Heat Transfer Vinyl By Hand

Start with a simple one color design for a t shirt.

Cutting heat transfer vinyl by hand.

For this project you ll need. The wide open space of t shirt fabric gives you lots of room to maneuver and isn t too fiddly for your first time. Heat transfer vinyl is often called htv or t shirt vinyl. 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.

Because heat transfer vinyl is on the carrier sheet with the adhesive side exposed it must be. Adhere your heat transfer vinyl with the shiny backing side down onto your cutting mat and load into your machine. And now i want to make one for myself. Verify your design is mirrored and cut your heat transfer vinyl.

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. If you are looking for a cricut design space tutorial on how to cut adhesive vinyl for hard goods check out this tutorial. And it just takes vinyl scissors a star punch and a few minutes to make that s it. If you have more than one color please note you need to mirror on all the mats.

Finally adjust your cut settings to work with the material you are using. I m super excited about how it turned out. Expressions vinyl and cricut are both great places to get all of your vinyl. Hand cut heat transfer vinyl.

Heat transfer vinyl i always buy mine from expressions vinyl aff. In this case i had yellow and the back is white. Link they are my go to. Applying heat transfer vinyl to the mat.

Adjust cut settings and cut. As part of showing you how to cut heat transfer vinyl with the cricut i want to show you some tips for applying the vinyl to the mat.