About to do my first t shirt - advice needed

[NIK]

I've finally got a design I'm happy with and am about to launch myself at the tshirt. However I wondered about the background and whether that will iron on too. I've saved the pattern as a gif - no background - but when I print out am I right in thinking that nothing but the design part will be printed and therefore iron on to the shirt? What I am trying to avoid is a white block around the letters which probably wouldn't look that good with the design i've done.

Thanks for your help once again guys

 

[lisabelll]

If the background is white it will not print out. Now as for the T-shirt, is it light or dark transfer paper? If it is light, the background will not print but there will be a big block of "clear" shiney around the design. If the transfer was for dark then it will be a large white block (because the transfer paper is white and that gets ironed on). The only way to avoid having either the white or shiney block is to cut out the transfer and then iron it on. As you can see in my siggy, I didn't cut the dark transfer and I have a large white block around the stick people. If I had done the transfer on light that white area would be shiney instead. So it is up to you, if you really don't want those, then carefully cut the DISign. Hope that made sense outloud

Here is a pic of what one DISer did for the letters (I thought it was such a good idea that I kept a pic!) They used the dark paper then cut a wavy design out around the letters and ironed it seperately from the top DISign.

 

[dogodisney]

It does to me.

 

[heartbeeps]

If the background is white it will not print out. Now as for the T-shirt, is it light or dark transfer paper? If it is light, the background will not print but there will be a big block of "clear" shiney around the design. If the transfer was for dark then it will be a large white block (because the transfer paper is white and that gets ironed on). The only way to avoid having either the white or shiney block is to cut out the transfer and then iron it on. As you can see in my siggy, I didn't cut the dark transfer and I have a large white block around the stick people. If I had done the transfer on light that white area would be shiney instead. So it is up to you, if you really don't want those, then carefully cut the DISign. Hope that made sense outloud ...

good job explaining that one!

 

[NIK]

That was helpful thanks. I'm sure it is white paper I bought

I did have a go some years ago at doing a t shirt using a kind of glue product that worked on a photocopy of the design but it was disastrous. The image came out a kind of thick plated slab and it really pulled the t shirt out of shape. The photos I've seen using this method look much more wearable.