Applying Heat Transfer Vinyl With Iron

I ve played around with scrap iron on vinyl and found that my sweet spot is right in between the 3 and 4.

Applying heat transfer vinyl with iron.

As you can easily see from this guide the process is quite easy and fast even for absolute beginners. Too hot and you will melt the carrier sheet and vinyl. Heat transfer vinyl htv or iron on is perhaps the most popular type of iron on transfer. It can easily be pressed onto a t shirt with an ordinary household iron though a heat press machine is better if you are thinking of.

Heat transfer vinyl. Applying htv with an iron success part 2 for those of you who saw our last blog you know that we attempted to apply 4 different htv s siser easyweed mint hotmark revolution red thermoflex plus kelly green and turbo low temp white with the use of a hand iron. Once the iron on vinyl has been properly applied it is ready for wearing using and laundering. To apply heat transfer vinyl start by heating a clothes iron to the temperature indicated on the vinyl s packaging.

The carrier sheet is a little sticky so you can place it on your project and it stays put. Before i get into how to apply iron on let me share with you the different types of iron on heat transfers and tell you a little bit about them. As you can easily see from this guide the process is quite easy and fast even for absolute beginners. Heat transfer vinyl comes with heat settings by degrees.

With smooth heat transfer vinyl you can see that you have a good application when you can see the weave of the fabric through the vinyl see the image below. Next lay your design onto the fabric shiny side up.