Spooky Spider Shirt Using Cricut EasyPress Mini

Love Halloween but hate dressing up in costume? No problem. Make a spooky spider shirt with the new EasyPress Mini from Cricut!

There are two kinds of people at Halloween. The dressing up kind and the non-dressing up kind. My husband is the latter.

This year, I decided to make a fun Halloween t-shirt for him to wear instead. I mean, if he isn’t going to dress up he can at least wear a spooky spider shirt, right?

Even babies can wear cute shirts instead of dressing up. When my oldest grandson was a couple of months old, I made him this Halloween Onesie Just Here for the Boobs and I love how it turned out.

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My husband doesn’t usually wear shirts with pockets, but it was a must for this project.

And since my design calls for putting some of the iron-on vinyl inside the pocket, I needed a new tool.

The new Cricut EasyPress Mini is perfect for small and/or unique projects like hats, shoes, shirt sleeves, cuffs, and pockets. It even works great on stuffed animals!

Plus, it offers the same benefits and technology as the Cricut EasyPress 2: even heat plate and easy-to-use heat settings for effortless heat transfers.

It’s perfect for using with my larger EasyPress.

Making Your Spooky Spider Shirt

Supplies:

• Cricut Access
• My design
• Cricut Maker or other Cricut cutting machine
• Standard grip machine mat
• Everyday Iron-On Vinyl in white
• Cricut EasyPress Mini
• 9×9 Cricut EasyPress 2
• 8×10 Cricut EasyPress Mat
• Men’s black cotton t-shirt with pocket (Washed and dried without fabric softener)

Cutting Your Spider Shirt Design

• Once you have all of your supplies, access my design in Cricut design space here.
• Next, click on “customize” if you need to make any sizing changes. The design was made to fit a men’s XL t-shirt (Otherwise, click “make it”) Click “make it” when the design is the size you want it to be.
• In the next window, be sure to select the “mirror” toggle option.

• Follow the prompts on your cutting machine to cut the vinyl.
• After the vinyl is cut, carefully weed out the designs. Use scissors, to separate the design elements.

Adhering Your Vinyl

• Set your EasyPress Mini to Medium. Hit the temp button 2x’s for medium.
• The bottom two bars will light up orange while heating up, and then turn green when ready to use.

• Place your shirt on a clean mat.
• Preheat the inside of the shirt pocket and the area above for 5 seconds
• Lay the spider web design face down (liner side up) on your shirt so that the corner is inside the pocket.

• Press while moving with light pressure at medium setting for 25 seconds.
• Slowly remove liner while warm.
• Repeat for spider crawling out of pocket

•  You will be using the 9×9 (or larger t-shirt size EasyPress 2) EasyPress on the back of the shirt.
• Set your EasyPress to 315º.
• Place your shirt on a clean mat.
• Decide where you want to place the mama and baby spiders.

• Remove design.
• Preheat the desired areas for 5 seconds.
• Place iron-on face down, liner side up.
• Press with light pressure at 315°F for 30 seconds.
• Slowly remove liner while warm.

 

It’s that easy! What are you favorite Halloween shirt designs?

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