DIY custom baby onesie with Heat Transfer Vinyl
Whether you’re making a DIY custom baby onesie for a new addition to the family, a baby shower gift, or just for fun, you can create your own customized design to fit any unique occasion with heat transfer vinyl. Learn how here!
Equipment
- Cutting Machine {I have Silhouette Cameo}
- Regular Iron or heat press or easypress.
Ingredients
- A Plain onesie – I love Gerber’s packs.
- Heat Transfer Vinyl – I love cricut htv or silhouette htv.
- Cute shapes cut files – I used one from the silhouette store.
- Love and creativity!
- Optionally if you don’t have cut machines, there are tons of places that could cut the HTV for you you just have to google it!
Instructions
STEP 1: CREATE THE DESIGN
- First I created my design for the front and back of the onesie in my Silhouette studio.
- The owl is from the silhouette store, you can find it here and search for “Owl Hearts” and you will see it.
STEP 2: CUT THE HEAT TRANSFER VINYL DESIGN
- Once the design is defined and in the right size, I flip the image (mirror it) and send it to the silhouette machine following the proper cut settings suggested.
- I prefer using the mat because I cut the necessary HTV and I waste less material.
STEP 3: WEED OUT THE UNWANTED HTV
- Once the design is cut, using the hook or weeding tool, remove all the unwanted pieces of htv. Including all the surrounding HTV.
- There you have the mirrored image is ready.
- Cut it into two pieces: the heart and the owl.
STEP 4: PRESS OR IRON-ON THE DESIGN ONTO THE ONESIE
- Decide on the position of the owl on the onesie, place iron-on vinyl with the plastic backing up, and lay a t-shirt or piece of fabric on top of the design.
- Iron in cotton settings pressing down firmly for about 40-60 seconds (time might vary between irons) until you are sure the vinyl is really stuck to the onesie.
- If you peel away the plastic and the vinyl is not set, continue ironing for a few more seconds.
- I let it cool for a few seconds and started peeling away the plastic very carefully.
- Then did the same process for the heart on the butt area… Not sure if I got it right but I tried, right? LOL
- To wash it you can just machine wash and dry inside out (the lower the heat the better).
- There you go! One adorable DIY Baby Onesie!