Starting off the new year, I already know of quite a few babies that will be born in 2012. So I decided a cute baby gift could be a customized onesie!
With iron-on vinyl, you have the ability to make onesies as unique as each baby is!
I decided to make a girl and a boy onesie:
To make these onesies, you will need:
- white or colored onesies
- Rit dye (Petal Pink and Royal Blue, optional)
- white iron on vinyl
- black iron on vinyl
- iron
- scissors
- vinyl cutting machine (optional)
- tweezers (optional)
First I wanted to change the color of the onesies. I bought a white onesie for the boy and a light pink onesie for the girl. But I wanted the boy’s to be a dark blue and the girl’s to be a brighter pink. So I bought Rit dye in Royal Blue and Petal Pink and followed the instructions to dye my onesies to the color I wanted.
Next, you will need to decide what image you want on your onesie. I decided that I wanted a necklace for the girl’s onesie and a motorcycle for the boy onesie.
(I used my Silhouette for this project, but if you don’t have a vinyl cutting machine, remember, you can cut simple shapes with scissors.)
I used my Silouette software and was able to find a picture of a pretty cool motorcycle for the boy online. I sized the image, mirrored it and then cut the motor cycle out of black iron-on vinyl.
This image was a bit detailed so it took a little longer to weed then normal, but I love how it looks! (This is where tweezers come in handy to help you weed!)
Sadly, I couldn’t find a necklace that I liked for the girl. So the first thing I did was to design my own necklace in the Silhouette software using the circle shape.
I just put a series of circle in a necklace shape, slightly overlapping. Then I used the “weld” tool to delete all the excess cut lines that I didn’t want.
Because this shape looks the same whether it is mirrored or not, I did not need to mirror this image prior to cutting.
I cut out the necklace using white iron-on vinyl and weeded the excess vinyl away.
Remember, when cutting iron-on vinyl, the shiny side must be down and you (almost) always need to mirror the image. The shiny side is actually your backing paper AND works as your transfer tape too!
After the images are cut and weeded, you will iron the vinyl onto your onesie. After it is ironed on, you will carefully peel away the backing paper/transfer tape.
It is so much fun making onesies with iron-on vinyl!
Ashley Phipps is an Interior Designer, NCIDQ #25242,
living in the Indianapolis area, and author of the blog Simply Designing.
I received a Sizzix machine for Christmas. Can I cut iron on vinyl shapes with it? thanks
where do I purchase this vinyl?
I just purchased almost every color of iron-on and my dad purchased every color of flocked iron-on for Christmas with the intention of making onesies for my first born. Love the project, I especially love the necklace!
The finished onsie with the motorcycle looks like it has two tones of color. How did you accomplish that? That’s intriguing!
I think the motorcycle onsie looks two toned because of the lighting when I took the photo. But I did achieve the blue color by using Rit Dye on a white onsie.
What an adorable way to use the iron-vinyl. I can’t wait to make some of these. Is there any chance you would be willing to share the silhouette file for the necklace?