Couture: Yolö

Even though the screen printing is going swimmingly, I thought it might be fun to try a  transfer thingie again.  But this time in A3 instead of A4.

I googled a bit, and a store strangely called yolö seemed like a likely supplier.  So I got a 25-pack of transfers, and printed out an image.

These work pretty much like the ones I tried earlier.  You print out into a plastic substrate that you then separate from the paper backing, and then you melt the plastics onto the fabric.

Peeling these are easier said than done.  No matter how I tried to separate the plastics from the paper with my nails, I only managed to tear the paper.

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yolo transfer paper tearing

Finally I got out an X-Acto knife and managed to wedge it between the plastic and the paper.  And then it was easy to tear it off and iron it onto the shirt.

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Mark Beyer

It’s survived a washing, too, so it seems pretty swell. But they really should have used higher-quality backing paper to make it easier to handle.

For a transfer.

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