HOLIDAY TEE SHIRTS and MORE


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It all started when my kid turned eleven and wanted a very expensive Buffalo Bills tee shirt. I was shocked at how much a Mall kiosk could charge for a logo and the words "GO Bills." I decided to hunt around for a better price, but as any other Mom can tell you, after many hours and worn out feet, the price hovered in the Stratosphere!

When in doubt, I always stop at the local sewing store a branch of Jo Anne Fabrics.com and found that I could get a pack of six pieces of treated paper which could be injet printed and then ironed onto the tee shirt. Any Image at all...

Certainly I could manage that I figured. Just to be sure, I went to the WEB site on the package Transfer Magic.com and I'm glad I did. It gave all sorts of free patterns and a link to a free tee shirt maker program that would automatically flip the image so when you ironed it on it would look right.

The Free Tee Shirt Maker is from Hanes the tee shirt company. You can find it at: www.hanes2u.com

It is a fabulous site with lots a free patterns for the tee maker including --wonderful!!!! -- a football template.

So one quick download for the Hanes Tee Shirt Lite and the football image and I was busy. I got a pack of discount tees at The Dollar Store (a local discount center) for two dollars each, and after changing the color of the football uniform I printed a "Go Bills" in the image and printed with our ink jet.

After ironing according to directions, I had a football tee for less than four dollars rather than thirty! My son designed one of his own and just loved them!

So fun! So cheap! And I still had four print papers left... Hmmmm what next? Halloween tees shirts almost magically appeared. So for less than one Mall tee, we had six tee shirts!

And it was so easy with the Hanes Tee Shirt Lite Program which generates an image standard paper size - 8.5 inches by 11 inches in mirror image for proper transfer. You could do the same with any image, just remember to change it to mirror image -- or the letters will be backwards and you'll have to tell everyone you wanted them that way!

To center the Image just fold the tee and mark top and bottom with pins. Check with a blank piece of 8.5 by 11 paper pinned in the spot to make sure it looks the way you imagined.

       

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