This is a good time to make sure you have weeded everything you don t want to transfer to your final project.
What to do with weeded vinyl.
Storing heat transfer vinyl.
Ok let s look at how this is done so you have a complete picture of the cutting process.
When you place a cut vinyl design upon the brightpad or other lightpad for weeding vinyl you are instantly able to see all the cut lines.
Some people prefer to add a weeding box around their image when they cut.
The design is made much more visible and it becomes easy to distinguish the area that needs weeded out.
There really is no trick to weeding.
Once you have all the excess vinyl removed from your design you can flip it over and see how your final design will look through the clear plastic carrier.
The steps to clean weed transfer and apply cut vinyl to most standard surfaces.
Transferring the final design.
Weeding vinyl is the process of removing the unwanted vinyl from your cut design.
The thicker the vinyl you are working with is the more the lightpad will help you.
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And some projects go better than others.
Weeding means to remove any of the vinyl that you don t want including any insides of the letters.
The weeding ring solved that.
After the design is cut it is time to weed the vinyl.
A vinyl machine is merely step 1 in the process.
We also need to think about steps 2 and 3.
Now we are all ready to transfer our cut and weeded design to our t.
I used to stick the weeded vinyl to my hand but my skin had a reaction to the sticky.
Start by peeling away the excess vinyl the largest parts of the design that you won t be applying to the finished piece.
You can think of it like weeding a garden.
They then pull up the box around the image and continue to weed from there.
You get better at it the more you do.