carol-lamb
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I just attempted my first shirt. I ironed on a stick figure family design on a red shirt and as the title says, the red of the shirt bled through. Now, I thought I had read enough posts on how to solve this problem, but I obviously ironed for too long a period and maybe the heat was too high?!?!? I'm so mad. I'm washing another red shirt right now and just printed another transfer. I will try again tomorrow. The shirt is so cute though - that design looks so good on a red shirt!! I got the shirt on sale at Michaels for $2.50 so I'm not out that much. I will give it one more shot on another red shirt and if that doesn't work, then I will use white shirts.
I used an HP dark transfer and the directions say to set the iron on the highest cotton setting. My iron has numbered settings (1-7) cotton being 6 (that is what I had it on). Do you think I should lower the temperature and reduce the amount of ironing time? The directions say to iron with light pressure for 1 minute if the design is a half page (my design is a little smaller than half a page) - and then iron with firm pressure for an additional minute. It had to have been on my last one or two passes that made the red bleed because I didn't see the red through the overlay paper until the very end of my ironing time.
Any ironing suggestions would be much appreciated!
Carol
I used an HP dark transfer and the directions say to set the iron on the highest cotton setting. My iron has numbered settings (1-7) cotton being 6 (that is what I had it on). Do you think I should lower the temperature and reduce the amount of ironing time? The directions say to iron with light pressure for 1 minute if the design is a half page (my design is a little smaller than half a page) - and then iron with firm pressure for an additional minute. It had to have been on my last one or two passes that made the red bleed because I didn't see the red through the overlay paper until the very end of my ironing time.
Any ironing suggestions would be much appreciated!
Carol