A Silhouette Heat Transfer for The Graduate

Silhouette America is having yet another promotion this month!  They were kind enough to send me some of their awesome heat transfer material to get my craft on!  Since Marielle is graduating high school in two weeks, I figured I’d surprise her with a fun t-shirt.

A Quickie Silhouette Heat Transfer Tutorial

I opted for some Teal and Dark Pink Smooth Heat Transfer material.  Just open up your Silhouette Studio software (included with your Silhouette SD Electronic Cutting Machine).  Type up a saying using whatever font strikes your fancy.  Be sure to MIRROR IMAGE your saying, so it prints out correctly.

Next just weed away the negative space of the heat transfer material leaving your words or image attached to the clear transfer sheet.

Now take your image and place it on whatever material you choose.  I opted for a simple white t-shirt.  The clear transfer tape sticks to your material.

Now cover the image and clear transfer tape with a cloth or the provided matte paper to protect it.

Set your iron to the Cotton setting and press for approximately 45 to 60 seconds, so that the image adheres to your material.  This can be a little tricky.  I found I had to iron it quite a bit.  At first, I couldn’t get the image to release from the clear transfer tape.  I gave up and called it a night.

Early the next morning, once the image had cooled, I was able to easily remove the clear transfer tape. Sometimes you just need to have a little patience….LOL!

Marielle loved her new t-shirt!  It’s been a long, hard road for Marielle.  We are so proud of her!

Here’s a You Tube tutorial for additional instructions:

This month’s Silhouette promotion for the Silhouette Heat Transfer Bundle is good from May 17 –25.  It includes:

• 1 Silhouette SD machine
• 2 cutting mats
• 1 blade with 3 adjustment caps
• $10 download card
• Silhouette Studio™ software (Mac® and PC)
• USB cable
• Getting Started With Silhouette guide
• 1 roll of WHITE flocked heat transfer material
• 1 roll of TEAL smooth heat transfer material
• 1 roll of DARK PINK smooth heat transfer

All for $219!

That is a savings of $120!!!

If you already have a machine or just want the heat transfer product, take 25% off all heat transfer material.

Just use the code “DIVA” at check out for either the Heat Transfer Bundle or the 25% off the heat transfer material to receive the discount!

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Happy Crafting!

With friendship,

Lisa

Sewing Pattern Reorganization

Why is it that I can’t seem to ever put away my sewing patterns?  I mean, I even wrote a huge blog post about organizing your sewing patterns.  You’d think I’d have this Sewing Room Organization thing under control.  No such luck.

I have turquoise binders,

pink binders,

and some more pink binders.

Did you count all the pattern binders?  Yep…there’s 18 of them! 5 Turquoise binders and 13 Hot Pink binders.

And that’s it.  I’m not buying anymore binders.  The bookcase where I keep my sewing pattern binders has 3 shelves which neatly fit 6 binders each…I’m maxed out at 18 binders.  There simple isn’t anymore room for patterns.

And I’m not buying anymore sewing patterns either.  Seriously…I rarely use any of them.  I buy them to read the construction details.  I’m always looking for a quicker way to do a sewing technique, etc.  Tell the truth—you do it, too, right?

I had dozens and dozens of patterns, some old, some new, laying around all over my sewing room.  It was time to finally reorganize and try to consolidate my pattern collection.  I was able to part with a whole box of patterns and will give them away on my local Freecycle website.

I used my Silhouette SD Electronic Cutter to make some vinyl labels for the pattern binders.  How cute!

 

I was tempted to paint my ugly old faux wood bookcase, but I’ll have to save that for another day (or year).

I keep the patterns I use most often on professional pattern hooks for easy access.  They hang from the basement rafters next to the sewing pattern bookcase.

I feel so much better now that I’ve reorganized my sewing patterns.  Only problem now is my fabric pile of shame.  Don’t laugh…you have one of those, too!

Happy Sewing!