Applying Heat Transfer Vinyl With Iron

Next lay your design onto the fabric shiny side up.

Applying heat transfer vinyl with iron.

Heat transfer vinyl htv or iron on is perhaps the most popular type of iron on transfer. That s how you apply heat transfer vinyl to various items with your household iron. I ve played around with scrap iron on vinyl and found that my sweet spot is right in between the 3 and 4. 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. 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. Once the iron on vinyl has been properly applied it is ready for wearing using and laundering.

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. Heat transfer vinyl. Then press the iron onto your design for 15 seconds move on to the next section and repeat until the entire image has been covered.

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. 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.