If your iron isn’t hot enough, you’re not ironing long enough, or you’re not pressing hard enough, it won’t actually melt into the fabric. The idea is that you’re not just melting the vinyl adhesive, but actually melting it into the fabric. Unlike my first attempt, I made sure to really push hard on the iron.Once I had the shirt on the ironing board, I also put pieces of masking tape with a pen line on the ironing board to help me position and orient the yard stick repeatedly.After looking at various other t-shirts, I decided they tended to look best when the top of the design was about 3″ lower than the bottom of the “V” in my v-neck shirts.I used a yard stick to estimate the center line of the shirt, which I could then align with the XY axis lines on the design itself.Then, once this was done I could draw the XY axis lines on the protective layer. After I had cut out the design entirely, I then used the craft knife to cut triangles into the protective layer pointing towards the center of the XY axis center of the design. The purpose of this is to help orient your design at the center of the fabric. I forgot to take a picture of it, but it helps to draw an X and Y axis into your drawing.You could make something a lot larger, but for all of my designs, this has worked out really well. This has seemed to be a really good size to show off a cool design, but also fits neatly in the center of an 8.5″x11″ piece of standard printer paper. I tend to make designs that are no more than about 6″ wide.
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