Week of change (with the ZING)

Changing the look of things that is!

This week (week 8) I played with vinyl again BUT this time it 

was heat transfer  vinyl for clothing. It has been such a fun week.

 Started with sitting looking at the vinyl for ages trying to work out 

how it really works. So then I cut of  a little square and ironed it on to 

a piece of scrap fabric  OH WOW it is soo fine .

Then I had to think what will I try first. And I remembered that Neal 

had brought a pair of black runners the other day so I cut out two 

space invaders and got a block of wood to put inside the shoe to iron to.

And I added to the shoe.

  TIP !!!! the eyelets of the shoes get VERY HOT " OUCH!"

I think they turned out soo good

Then I wanted to try a layered picture. This time I wanted to put it on my 

bag. I cut all the coloured pieces (at this stage i realized that i was putting

it on a black bag and the black layer would not shoe good so I made a 

white shaddow for the whole thing. With them all cut out and pulled away the 

waste part of the vinyl i went to the iron starting with the white layer, I 

ironed that on the bag and  while still hot pulled of the plastic sticky and 

then ironed on the black layer then pulled off the plastic, Continued 

layering the pieces one colour at a time remembering to pull the plastic off between 

Here is the result

Now that I knew what I was doing and was getting addicted

 ( did you know I get addicted to things?)

I then cut out the layers for my frog  to put on my tshirt. 

Got a little worried that the zigzags on his legs would be too small to 

be able to be used . BUT i forgot I was using the ZING wasn't I and

it cut them soo good that they worked great.

Here is the result

Drew the frog from shirt I made about 15 years ago that i can no longer

buy to fabric to make a new one, BUT I really love the frogs on that fabric

NEXT, those who follow my blog will know that I don't like

wasting things so while cutting out the parts for layering if there 

was room to add a little something I would add it. So what I did 

was was cut some space invaders out of all the free spaces of the 

vinyl and

HERE is what i did with them

Neal was soo impressed by how they turned out that he then 

brought out his blue and white checked shirt and asked could he 

 he have blue bikes on each of the white squares  

(what a good idea ?)

Not knowing how it was going to look and how big the bikes 

I would need i cut two sizes of bikes out  30 big ones and 10 little ones.

Once I  went to the iron and started working out how it 

was all going to go. I thought that the bigger bikes looked

better so i started ironing them on. But then when it came to 

the pocket UGGG  The checked was on an angle, what to do?.....

OH  what about if i tried a little one on the pockets  and it worked 

then  putting little ones down the placket at the front

HERE is the result (only did the front of shirt and sleeves)

Then Sunday morning (Easter Sunday) being the first cool morning 

we have had in some time i has a polar fleece jacket on.

And i kept wondering if it would  be able to have the vinyl on it.

So I cut out a robot and ironed it on . 

TIP

 if you are putting on polar fleece you need to iron before putting vinyl 

on so that you flatten the fleece a bit

AND 

that there is no hair on the jacket where you are putting the 

vinyl (I did not see it till i was taking a picture of the jacket  UGG

(recon I should have no hair with the amount that falls out daily) 

Here is the result

You can buy the heat vinyl from SkatKat


This week I had planed to do fabric stuff but with the 

yellow blade but I got a bit sidetracked and in amazement  

I found out what an iron does (SMILE)

 Still have heaps of vinyl left so be warned that it will not be the last

of me using it  will show you as i make things

I am of to explore some more.

 If you live in Australia and New Zealand 

and wondering where you can get a KNK Zing 

SKAT KAT  is the place to find them