June 15, 2018
Heat Transfer Vinyl Baseball Baby Bodysuit
Crafts
Hey friends Jenni is back today with a sweet heat transfer vinyl baseball baby bodysuit outfit, perfect for baseball season!!
I have the cutest project for you today…I made my 6 month old son a baseball onesie using heat transfer vinyl. One of his big brothers plays baseball so I thought it would be fun for him to have a jersey with his number on it. We just love watching and supporting our team. So, using his big brothers jersey as an example I used heat transfer vinyl (HTV) to make his. I can’t wait to see big brothers face when he sees little brother in this HTV baseball baby bodysuit. I hope you enjoy this tutorial and are inspired to make one! Materials:
Process:
- Decide on the design. For this onesie I used our last name and his big brothers baseball numbers. I wanted it to look similar to big brothers jersey. The font used is a free font called Freshman.
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- Using your Cricut Explore Air 2 or whichever vinyl cutting machine you choose cut your design.
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- For HTV you will want to use the mirror function on your cutting machine so that you can read the wording when it’s ironed on.
- I like to go ahead and start heating my heat press so its read to use when I have everything ready. Your HTV instructions will tell you what temperature to heat your press to.
- Once the design is cut, use the scissors to trim around it.
- Now you are ready to remove the excess vinyl from the HTV carrier sheet; use your vinyl weeding tool to do this.
- You are ready to place your design on your baby bodysuit now. I don’t use any special measurements, just eyeballing does the job. Just place the design where you think it looks good and straight.
- When you have your design in place and your heat press is heated to the correct temperature you are ready to press your design and make it permanent.
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- Front and Back
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Tips:
- Don’t forget to use mirror image setting on your vinyl cutting machine when using HTV.
- If you are using an iron, heat to cotton/linen setting and use as much pressure are you can when you are setting your design on your onesie.
- Us the sticky backing on the HTV, place your design, hold it up…make sure you are happy with the placement before you press it.
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