Find the vertical center of your shirt. The simplest way to do this is to fold your shirt in half by matching up your sleeves. Place your T-shirt ruler up against the collar seam of your T-shirt. You don’t want it on the edge of your collar, but rather just below the seam. TIP: Putting a crease in your shirt like this also serves to pre-heat the material. It won’t impact the final design at all. Remove the ruler, being careful not to shift the design. Your T-shirt and decal are now perfectly aligned! NOTE: The T-shirt rulers are already sized correctly so you do not have to worry about re-sizing. The Adult rulers should be approx. 5" H x 10.39"W, and the Youth/Toddler/Infant rulers should be 10" W x 4.5" H.

A way to cut your T-shirt rulers and vinyl. I used the amazing Cricut Maker 3 but you can also use the original Maker or an Explore series machine with the Fine-Point BladeRemember, place the vinyl against the t-shirt so the shiny carrier sheet is between the design and your EasyPress or iron.

You should be able to cover this entire decal in one press with the EasyPress 2. If you are using a home iron or alternate heat source, you may need to press in sections to get the entire decal. You just want to make sure all parts of the decal have been pressed for 30 seconds. Preheat your EasyPress or iron to the proper temperature.The guide calls for me to set my EasyPress 2 to 330°F. If you are using an iron and cotton t-shirt, set it to the cotton setting. If your shirt is something other than cotton, you may need a different setting for your material.Guides have flexibility with what they wear as uniform. They often agree on their uniform guidelines together with other girls in the unit. What Guides wear Iron-on vinyl – I used Cricut Everday Iron-On in yellow, and Holographic Iron-On in red and cobalt. Union flag badge-this badge should be worn at international events,on the left shoulder of the uniform top.

Of course, you can always go a bit smaller than this, but this is the typical sizing of shirt decals that we’re all used to seeing. If you go too much smaller, your decal will be hard to see and hard to weed. A general rule of thumb is to align the top of the design right around where the tip of the hood lays so that none (or very little) of the design is hidden.Cut the vinyl using the "Holographic Vinyl" setting with "More" Pressure, shiny side down on a green StandardGrip machine mat. NOTE: I also eyeball it at this point to ensure this is where I want it to go. It is fine to change it if you want, especially if you're working with an irregularly-shaped design that might look more balanced not quite on center. An appropriate heat press – I used my EasyPress 2, but you can use another Cricut heat press, or a home iron. Have a towel or pressing mat and a lint roller ready, too. The best size really depends on the garment and design, but I have handy references for the maximum recommended sizes in the printable tutorial. Now, don’t worry if the curve of your T-shirt ruler does not exactly match the curve of your seam. There may be a little extra space. So long as it is centered, it does not matter.

But if you might need to see the fabric’s surface during alignment — like if you’re using a patterned shirt— or plan to make A LOT of shirts, the chopping mat version is easier to make than you might think and extremely durable. It actually just takes a fine-point blade and StrongGrip mat! We don't need to change any operations, because I'm going to use the fine-point blade to "engrave" the markings and cut the ruler shape at the same time, but only want the markings to be surface deep. I found it easier to double up on the ruler outline cut rather than fiddling with pressure settings, multiple cuts, and cuts turning out misaligned.Use your EasyPress or iron to put a little crease on the center fold. When you open your shirt you’ll know exactly where the center is. Now you can just line up the center of the ruler with the crease to get perfect placement!