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Hi, I'm Chris owner of Salon ***, for Expert Village, this is how to create your own iron
on t-shirt. Now we're ready to place our transfer on the t-shirt and where we want it. Typically
we'll want to have it center. But we can place our transfer anywhere that we want to on the
t-shirt. For this transfer because it's a little bit smaller, I'll actually place it
up in the right hand upper, right hand corner of the t-shirt. Once I have the transfer centered
in place where I want it, my iron has been pre-heated on a hot cotton setting and I'll
begin to apply the heat to the backing of the transfer. Make sure that the transfer
is facing up. And I'll just begin applying the heat to the edges of the transfer first.
Working the heat all the way around the transfer. I'm applying a good amount of pressure here
on very very hot setting. I'm not using steam. And once I've gone around the edges, I'll
just begin to iron the transfer over making sure that I get even heat distribution across
the middle of the transfer to each edge so that all of the ink gets transferred to the
t-shirt. Most transfers that we create will actually be a cold peel transfer. That means
once the heat has been applied we'll let that cool for a couple of minutes and then we'll
remove the backing. I'll apply heat evenly across the transfer for about 30 seconds or
so. Making sure that the entire transfer is heated properly and that all of the ink gets
transferred to the t-shirt so I have no lifting either in the middle or on the edges of the
shirt. I'll let that cool for a couple of minutes, until it's cool to the touch. It's
a little hot right now and then we'll remove the backing.