Sue2

Not many of us have any experience using the home craft cutters ( Cricut, Silhouette, Brother) or their programs so it's hard to answer your question.

I agree with Dakota... Years ago one of my first heat press t-shirts was for Halloween. I made a great bright orange pumpkin design on a black shirt...it looked great........until the next day the orange had turned rust color. The shirt was 100% polyester. The vinyl was an unknown manufacturer. I still have that shirt hanging up to remind me to check the material content and the vinyl. Sue

WG, I'd be interested in one of those too! I usually use an Xacto. Most tweezers I have tried get bent tips after a bit. Sue

I usually try for 10" to 10.5" wide for a regular t-shirt logo imprint.......BUT recently I have been getting a bunch of shirts that are 2X, 3X and even a couple 6X. Do you all expand the design a bit to make it take up a little more space? I realize we are limited to the heat press platen size but I have a 16x20" press so that is not an issue for me....although those 6X shirts are HUGE! I suspect these larger imprints should cost more....25% larger...25% more cost. Thanks for any suggestions/input. Sue2

That's a good one for t-shirt lettering.

Thanks Goose...that's the one.....I never thought to look in the "Fancy" font category! Sue

I need some suggestions for the font pictured below... My customer used a free online logo app to create their logo and this is the text they used.... Now they want t-shirts and I need to find a font that looks similar and can be cut & pressed...... I've come up with nothing that has that distressed/movement look. Any suggestions??? BTW....the whole "logo" was about 4" x 4" and 72 dpi...that's what you get for FREE! TIA............Sue2

Didn't stop to think ahead when I designed this....each shirt took 20 minutes to weed! No profit there! It's okay to use for printing but not for heat press work. Thankfully I only needed to make 3. Really don't want to use it again. LOL...Sue

I will definately try the Port shirts next time.....but, I use Gildan mostly because I can always run to the Hobby stores to get "a few more" when my customers miscount or under count their needs.

I'll try those...mostly this lot is for a charity event and they don't care much as long as it lasts the day!!

I just placed an order at SanMar for white Gildan Heavy 100% cotton t-shirts the basic sizes were on sale $1.76 each. Always check the SALE tab.

Find My Font found these two.... NYTCheltenhamBdCon (Regular) Gloucester MT Extra Condensed (Regular) ************************************************ Sue2

Here is one of the all silhouettes files. https://all-free-download.com/free-vector/download/vector-dinosaurs-clipart_57938.html

Been there...done that.....way too many times. I get so involved with how it looks and fits that I completely forget to MIRROR the image.

The hobby/craft stores sell small pieces for the craft cutters. They stock a lot of colors & textures. Just make sure it is HTV and not sign vinyl! The packaging looks very similar. Sue2