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Tuesday quick tip: dealing with tiny pieces of weeded vinyl

July 7, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Today's quick tip is one I used recently when creating a stencil from vinyl. I had a ton of little dots to weed away. Weeding isn't the problem -- it's what to do to corral all those little pieces once they are off. My solution? A lint … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free Content Tagged With: quick tip, vinyl, weeding

Cut Doctor: Lesson 24 — Dealing with difficulties after the cut

April 18, 2019 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

We've made it to the end of our series (to start with Lesson 1, go here). Your cuts should be all healed now! But today's visit is a follow up appointment where we go over things like post-operative complications. Specifically, we're going to talk … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: blade, cut doctor, cut settings, force, htv, line segment overcut, mat, material, vinyl, weeding

HTV Projects Checklist

September 19, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff

This post is part of my Checklists series. Each post in the series is a set of brief reminders to guide you while you work on a project. The HTV Projects Checklist helps you remember each step to take when you are cutting and applying HTV (heat … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: heat press, heat transfer material, heat transfer vinyl, htv, iron, tshirt, weeding

First Steps in HTV: Project #1 — Polka Dot Heart Tea Towel

September 19, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff

using htv with silhouette cameo beginner

I didn’t realize when I bought my first Silhouette machine that I could use it to make custom shirts, or that heat transfer vinyl would turn out to be my favorite type of material to work with. My boys (and their friends) seem to have several new … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deluxe Membership Tagged With: beginner, heat transfer material, heat transfer vinyl, htv, iron, mirror, project, towel, weeding

Successful Beginner Projects: #9 Baby stroller vinyl layering decal

February 22, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff

beginner vinyl

Today’s project is another one using vinyl layering. We’re going to learn about doing our vinyl layering before we put the vinyl on our project. I’ll also teach you about cutting 2 colors in the same pass, some new weeding techniques, and another way … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: beginner, hinge, layer, layering, reverse weeding, transfer, vinyl, weeding

Successful Beginner Projects: #8 Snowflake decal with vinyl layering

February 9, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff

silhouette beginner vinyl

In today’s beginner project, I want to teach you about simple vinyl layering and show you a new application technique. We’re also going to learn a bit about working with small designs. Let’s get going! To start with project #1 in this series, go … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: beginner, cut settings, hinge, speed, transfer, vinyl, vinyl layering, weed, weeding

Successful Beginner Projects: #7 Teapot vinyl decal

January 10, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff

silhouette vinyl decal

Now that we’ve gotten a simple 1-piece vinyl project under our belt, let’s move on to one with multiple pieces in a single design. If you haven’t done projects 1-6, I highly recommend you do. As we go in order through the lessons, I add new concepts … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: alignment, beginner, curved, successful, transfer paper, transfer tape, vinyl, weeding, weeding box

Successful Beginner Projects: #6 Snowman flat ornament

November 28, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff

vinyl snowman

I hope you’ve gotten comfortable with cutting cardstock in our first 5 beginner projects. If you haven’t yet done those, I HIGHLY recommend it. You can find project #1 here. This set of 10 projects is designed to teach you in incremental steps and I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: beginner, cut, cut settings, transfer paper, transfer tape, vinyl, weed, weeding

Before you Series Begin #7: Good Materials to Start with

September 22, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff

Our next lesson will be on unboxing and setting up your machine. Before you do that, you’ll want to have some materials on hand to start with. Even if your goal is to make t-shirts with heat transfer material/vinyl (known as HTV), you want to start … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: 631, 651, beginner, cardstock, material, transfer paper, transfer tape, vinyl, weeding

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