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Tutorial: How to Use a Tee Square It to Line Up Your HTV Designs Perfectly

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When you use your Silhouette or Cricut to create shirts for sale, your number one concern should be the quality of your product. When working with shirts, one of the biggest quality issues is lining up the design correctly. Can you imagine going through a rack of shirts at your favorite store and each of the same shirt design is lined up different – or maybe even crooked? You probably wouldn’t buy the shirt, and your customers won’t want to either. To help you line up designs, I am introducing you to one of my favorite gadgets – the Tee Square It 3 designed and manufactured by Heat Press Essentials.

Note: The Tee Square It 3 has been updated and replaced with the Tee Square It I. It functions the same with minor improvements.

What is the Tee Square It 3?

The Tee Square It 3 is a two piece gadget that helps you line up heat transfer vinyl, iron ons, plastisol, rhinestone, stencil, or any other transfer onto your garment. It will save you time and energy in your Silhouette or Cricut based business. It will also help improve your product quality, because designs will be properly lined up.

Tutorial: How to Use a Tee Square It to Line Up Your HTV (Heat Transfer Vinyl) Designs Perfectly (and quickly & easily!) in your Silhouette Cameo or Cricut Business - by cuttingforbusiness.com

Step-by-Step Instructions to Use the Tee Square It 3

  1. Cut and weed your design, then pre-press your shirt.
  2. Lay your shirt flat. You can do this on your heat press or on a nearby flat surface.
  3. Place the Tee Square It 3 on top of your shirt with the collar plate over the collar. You will line up one set of the arrows on the Tee Square It 3 with the seam of your collar. You can see in the photo below I’ve circled the arrows that I’ve used to line up the seam.
    How to Use a Tee Square It to Line Up Your HTV (Heat Transfer Vinyl) Designs Perfectly (and quickly & easily!) - by cuttingforbusiness.com
  4. Next, you’ll line up the side seams of the shirt on the width bar. In the photo below, I circled the measurements on the side seam to show you how it should line up. In this example, the side seams line up at 5.25 inches.How to Use a Tee Square It to Line Up Your HTV (Heat Transfer Vinyl) Designs Perfectly (and quickly & easily!) - by cuttingforbusiness.com
  5. After lining up your shirt, slide your transfer design under the Tee Square It 3. You will be able to use the width bar to line up your design. The photo below shows my design lined up using the width bar horizontally (marked with circles) and the center bar vertically (marked with arrows).How to Use a Tee Square It to Line Up Your HTV (Heat Transfer Vinyl) Designs Perfectly (and quickly & easily!) - by cuttingforbusiness.com
  6. Remove the Tee Square It 3, and your shirt is ready to press. (If you won’t be pressing it right away, you can secure your design with blue painters tape. It can safely be pressed – I do it all the time.)How to Use a Tee Square It to Line Up Your HTV (Heat Transfer Vinyl) Designs Perfectly (and quickly & easily!) - by cuttingforbusiness.com
  7. Press your design using your heat press. As I’ve mentioned before, I have a PowerPress machine and I’ve never had any issues. If you are selling your designs, a heat press is the standard and a must have – read more about this in another post.
  8. That’s it! This whole process takes about 1-2 minutes. I showed every step of the way, so it looks time consuming, but it is not. But, don’t go yet! I want you to see that this tool actually works. Below are various measurements to show you that my heat transfer vinyl design is actually lined up.How to Use a Tee Square It to Line Up Your HTV (Heat Transfer Vinyl) Designs Perfectly (and quickly & easily!) - by cuttingforbusiness.com
    How to Use a Tee Square It to Line Up Your HTV (Heat Transfer Vinyl) Designs Perfectly (and quickly & easily!) - by cuttingforbusiness.com
    How to Use a Tee Square It to Line Up Your HTV (Heat Transfer Vinyl) Designs Perfectly (and quickly & easily!) - by cuttingforbusiness.com
    How to Use a Tee Square It to Line Up Your HTV (Heat Transfer Vinyl) Designs Perfectly (and quickly & easily!) - by cuttingforbusiness.com

I received no compensation to write this post, nor was I asked to write this post. I’ve had a Tee Square It 3 from before Cutting for Business was online – and it is one of the most useful gadgets I own. You can order it on Amazon at this link. The font used in this tutorial is called Stacked. It is my current “go to” for kid’s designs and you can pick it up on Creative Market for $10.

If this tutorial helped you, please remember to hover over the image below to share it on your favorite social media to spread the word.

Tutorial: How to Use a Tee Square It to Line Up Your HTV (Heat Transfer Vinyl) Designs Perfectly (and quickly & easily!) in your Silhouette Cameo or Cricut Business - by cuttingforbusiness.com

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Comments

  1. Sharon says

    November 29, 2016 at 1:11 pm

    Where did you purchase your Tee Square?

    Reply
    • Christine says

      November 29, 2016 at 1:14 pm

      Hello! See the last paragraph of the post for links to purchase. Thanks!

      Reply
  2. Sally says

    January 30, 2017 at 11:49 am

    Do you still have the tee square it 3?

    Reply
    • Christine says

      January 31, 2017 at 7:59 am

      Currently sold out – more should be in in the next few days.

      Reply
  3. joyce says

    February 17, 2017 at 11:09 am

    How do you know the correct placement of your design on the shirt? The T square looks awesome to make sure your design is straight!

    Reply
    • Christine says

      February 17, 2017 at 7:50 pm

      There’s a lot of graphics out there that can help. Here’s a link to my Pinterest board with some of them: https://www.pinterest.com/cuttingbusiness/design-placement-%2B-vinyl-tip-sheets-resources-silh/

      Reply
  4. missy says

    December 6, 2017 at 4:46 pm

    hi I have one but the stickiness of the carrier sheet makes it impossible to slide under the ruler for placement and adjustment do you have any tips thank you so much

    Reply
    • Christine says

      December 8, 2017 at 10:57 am

      Hello! You can desticky your carrier sheet slightly before putting the design on the shirt.

      Reply
  5. Vickie says

    July 22, 2018 at 8:34 pm

    when will you get more T squares? How much are they?

    Reply
    • Christine says

      September 24, 2018 at 9:46 am

      You can find them on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2NxdPaV

      Reply
  6. Sooz says

    June 13, 2019 at 12:30 pm

    Great article. Can it be used for left or right chest logo placement too – like the ‘Logo It / LogoGrid It’ alignment tool please?
    Thanks

    Reply
    • Christine, Cutting for Business says

      July 2, 2019 at 7:01 pm

      The Logogrid It is meant for chest designs – the Tee Square is meant to center designs.

      Reply

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