Use Cotton Tees: 100 percent cotton tee shirts.Oddly, working with transfers can be easier than applying a saying or slogan using iron-on letters, since you must work with many small transfers (each letter) as opposed to a single large design.įollowing are some tips that I’ve learned from experience in using these charming but sometimes awkward to apply letters and numbers. I hand stitched the pillow closed.Fancy decorated and bejeweled tee shirts can be expensive, and many girls and young women are taking advantage of the attractive iron-on transfers and rhinestone transfersnow available to custom design their own shirts. I was able to sew the 4th side halfway and stuff the pillow form inside. Because there is a lot of give with the sweater material.Allow the letters to cool before finishing the pillow. Turn sweater pillow cover inside out, cover with cloth and iron for an additional 30 seconds. Cover letters with a clean, soft cloth and iron the letters for 30 seconds. To Personalize my pillow, Turn the sweater back to the right sides and iron the Joy Iron-On Embroidered Letters.Remove pillow form and sew the second side together.Cut the sweater slightly larger than the pillow form.For my sweater, since the holes were on one side…I decided to sew the bottom of the sweater together first and insert the pillow to determine how much I needed to cut off the other side.Line up the pillow form with the sweater to determine the best placement to hide the holes. If you choose to make a purchase using one of the links, I receive a small commission (at no additional cost to you) that helps offset the costs of maintaining this blog. *Disclosure: This blog uses ads and affiliate links. Thanks for your support!Ī little matting and a frame and I have a fun inspirational piece of Random Letter Art. * Disclosure: This blog uses affiliate links. I added the glass back in after I was finished taking the picture. Optional: Glass in or Out? I left the glass out of the frame for photography purposed.
Adhere white and black layers onto Kraft cardstock and place inside frame.
Cut a piece of black cardstock 5 3/4″ x 7 3/4″, adhere finished letter art onto the black cardstock.(I used my finger tip to rub the glue to the letters.) Apply fabri-tac glue* to the back of the letters before adhering them to the paper.(just because it’s not perfect doesn’t mean it can’t be straight.) Use a piece of removable painters tape to keep the letters in line.
Arrange letters on white cardstock to play with the random letter placement.Cut a 5 1/2″ x 7 1/2″ piece of white heavyweight cardstock.Measure and cut a 8″ x 10″ piece of Kraft cardstock* to fit inside frame.I gathered my letters together to see what I could spell.ĭoesn’t it look like a colorful bowl of Alphabet Soup? And because I occasionally change my mind of what I want my projects to say,įor this month’s Design Team project I decided to use from that bag of random letters. I’ve been on the Creating with Joy Design Team for the past 5 years.ĭuring that time I’ve created all kinds of projects using a large variety of Embroidered Iron-On You don’t need to be perfect, you are awesome.
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