The next part of my design is the sash of the dress in Siser glitter HTV. Using Different Types Of Vinyl On The Same Shirt This will protect it from the press so that it won’t melt. It’s important to cover up any part of the design you’ve already pressed with the carrier sheet. Then I gave both ruffles another 10-15 seconds (I pressed everything from the back when I had completely finished the dress). Instead, I did about 10 seconds on the skirt, 10 seconds on the first ruffle, and another ten seconds on the second ruffle. This is the same as when layering heat transfer vinyl. I pressed the main skirt part first, and then the two layers of ruffles.Īs the different parts of the skirt were going to be pressed multiple times, I didn’t do the full 30 seconds in one go. Patterned iron on vinyl should be peeled cold. I decided to start with the biggest part of the dress first, and removed all the other parts I’m not pressing yet.Ĭricut recommends pressing the patterned iron on for 30 seconds and then turning the garment over (without removing the carrier sheet) and pressing from the back for another 15 seconds. I’m going to press one part at a time, as I need the placement to be perfect. I put my design together and worked out exactly where I wanted it to be on the shirt. I pre-pressed my garment for five seconds to remove wrinkles and moisture from the shirt. While there isn’t a lot of difference, the EasyPress mat is probably the better choice! We purchased the silicon pad rather than the EasyPress mat, because the latter didn’t ship to my address at the time. I’m using a silicon pad to press on with my EasyPress. It’s really quick to reach temperature, only taking a couple of minutes (My heat press takes at least 10-15 minutes)! The settings are the same for the EasyPress 2.įor patterned iron on, set the temperature to 340☏ allow the machine to heat up. I’m using the original Cricut EasyPress to apply the patterned HTV design. It is also quite nice that the carrier sheet isn’t sticky like most other HTV (one reason it’s easier to weed). Next I weeded each part of my design and removed all of the excess vinyl.Ĭricut Patterned iron on is incredibly easy to weed – there’s no resistance at all! It’s by far the easiest type of vinyl I’ve had to weed. Place the HTV onto the cutting mat with the shiny side (pattern side) facing down this goes for both the patterned and glitter HTV.īefore clicking cut, make sure you mirror ALL mats (it is an easy thing to forget!) so that the design is cut in reverse. If you are using the Cricut Maker, you will select ‘Patterned Iron On’ in Design Space before the job is sent to the machine. The glitter HTV part of my design is my second mat, so I made sure to change the custom settings to glitter iron on, and then back to patterned iron on for my third (and fourth) mat. I set my dial to ‘custom’ and selected patterned iron on from the custom settings. The first mat is cutting out part of the design in patterned iron on. I’m cutting this project out on four mats for the four different vinyls, using the Explore Air 2. It’s important to check out the recommended settings before you start cutting and pressing. Here’s the iron-on that I’m using for this project.Īs mentioned above, I’m using the In Bloom Pink Sampler, and Siser Glitter HTV (for the sash).īecause I’m using 2 different types of vinyl, they each have different cut and application settings. I’ve made my design six inches wide for a two year old’s t-shirt – resize to fit your garment. Otherwise, take a look at these Free SVGs for Cricut, or perhaps a Disney SVG would work well with patterned vinyl? If you want, you can download the free SVG cut file at the end of this post! Here’s the design I’ve made for this project. You will see the tools I use throughout the post, and you can find out more about other brands of patterned heat transfer vinyl here. Cricut Patterned HTV can be cut with all vinyl cutting machines, and pressed with:
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