Christmas Tea Towels

If you are lucky enough to have someone else do the cooking this Christmas why not say thank you and offer to help out in the kitchen with these cute personalised festive tea towels.

If you're doing the cooking maybe you could use these as a hint that maybe someone else should be doing the washing up!

Make the kids chores a bit more fun and remind them that someone may be watching from the shelf, or add them to the Christmas Eve box to encourage some holiday baking.

You Will Need

Towel

Various scraps of heat transfer vinyl. We used Poli-Flex Turbo and Pearl Glitter

Heat press or Iron (without steam)

Scalpel or Scissors

Teflon Sheet, or baking paper

Pressing pillow or spare towel to press onto.

Instructions

Load your HTV into the cutter with the shiny liner facing down. If you're victimisation scraps as I did, prepare the colors to correspond together with your shapes on screen. keep in mind TO REVERSE YOUR DESIGN! Once cut, peel your mat faraway from the media to forestall curling.

Weed all the layers and check them over to create certain you've got removed everything that you just got to. It's easier to ascertain from the reverse as any leftover bits are going to be additional noticeable. something left on the liner are going to be permanently adhered to your towel therefore make certain you have got no stray bits!

Layer your colors into the proper order and make certain all the shapes square measure there. Remember, textures, glitters and specialities perpetually got to endure top! If this can be unimaginable then make certain that the vinyl beneath the overlapping space is cut away. it's straightforward to try to to this in your Silhouette computer code victimisation the 'Modify' Panel. Then, employing a pressing pillow or another towel beneath to safeguard your surface from the warmth, press your towel to get rid of any wet or creases.

Press the lowest layer of your style together with your heat press or a domestic iron. If victimisation associate degree iron, use the cotton setting and make certain the steam perform is turned off. merely depress victimisation firm pressure, then elevate and reposition if needed, do not slide the iron back and forth as you'd if ironing garments. Check the peel settings for your material, leave to cool down if necessary then gently and slowly peel away the liner. If the perimeters begin to elevate slightly however you have got additional layers to travel, don't be concerned because the heat from the subsequent layers can do the trick, if not, press for some seconds additional. HTV wants pressure additionally as heat therefore make certain you depress firmly.

Press every layer one by one and peel off the liner anytime. Use the teflon sheet or baking paper to safeguard your material and style, . If the press comes into direct contact with the htv you'll get a glutinous mess! If you have got countless layers scale back the press time slightly therefore the lower layers aren't getting over heated.

Once your style is complete and every one the liner has been removed, replace the teflon sheet or baking paper and provides a final 2-3 second press with firm pressure to create certain everything is secure.

Step back and admire your work! Leave for twenty-four hours before victimisation or laundry to permit the adhesive time to cure, then sit back while somebody else kinds the dishes!