Hi Everyone – - it’s Mandy again from Sugar Bee Crafts (it’s awesome over there – go ahead and check it out!)

I want to show you a quick solution to a problem I was having….. I was making a shirt with iron-on vinyl (which we all LOVE!) with my Silhouette Cameo and I wanted to use the center of the letters as a place for fabric.  So what I needed was an outline of the letters, if that makes sense.  I tried making a smaller version of the letter, but doing that doesn’t line up well because of all the angles (unless it’s the letter “o”).  And I played around and came up with a solution…

I have never really used the drawing features, but there’s one that looks like a figure 8 with sharp angles (I pointed to it in the picture below) – you click on it and it will let you draw lines, all around, until you double click back on your starting point.  So I clicked a start point, then clicked in a corner of the letter, then clicked in another corner of the letter, etc, working my way around as it played connect the dots.  And so I made my own outline inside of the letter:

And then, a friendly reminder – - ALWAYS FLIP YOUR HEAT TRANSFER VINYL before cutting!!  Thank me later for that one :)

Here’s how it turned out after being cut and weeded – see how the middle of the letters on “KICKS” is open:

That allowed me to sew in some fabric for a little more fun – - see – the silver is the iron-on heat transfer – so fun!!

 

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