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.

Cutting heat transfer vinyl by hand.

Link they are my go to. I m super excited about how it turned out. And now i want to make one for myself. Adhere your heat transfer vinyl with the shiny backing side down onto your cutting mat and load into your machine.

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. 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. If you have more than one color please note you need to mirror on all the mats. Hand cut heat transfer vinyl.

The shiny side always goes down. Heat transfer vinyl i always buy mine from expressions vinyl aff. Expressions vinyl and cricut are both great places to get all of your vinyl. It is applied to clothing or other textiles with heat and pressure.

In this case i had yellow and the back is white. Find out more about why we have to mirror here. Finally adjust your cut settings to work with the material you are using. Start with a simple one color design for a t shirt.

Verify your design is mirrored and cut your heat transfer vinyl. 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. Applying heat transfer vinyl to the mat.

Adjust cut settings and cut. 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.