Have you ever wanted to make an outfit with coordinating top and bottom, but the fabric was too busy to use for both? This happens to me all the time. OR… I make PJ bottoms and then use a store bought t-shirt for the top.. I want to make sure my boys know which tops and bottoms go together, so I usually try to make them coordinate in some way. I recently tried this method of transferring the fabric pattern to cut with vinyl and I thought I would share it.
Okay, here’s how to transfer fabric pattern to vinyl… Start by taking photos of your fabric.
Open the photo of your fabric in the Silhouette Studio. Resize so that the pattern you want to copy is within the cut area. I want to copy one of the circles of flowers, so I centered that in my cutting space.
Here’s another fabric where I just want to copy one flower.
I used the draw with smooth lines tool as shown on the left. Trace the flower {or other design} with this tool. You can use the geometric shapes for areas that apply. I used the circle. 
When I finished tracing I took away the fabric back and I had this. Send to the cutter and make it an iron on vinyl design.
I used this flower on this dress. Cute right? The pattern is the free t-shirt dress with a woven circle skirt. The free pattern has tons of skirt options.
Back to the blue flower fabric.. I used the freehand draw tool so I could get the loopy flower. I drew one of the flowers, then copy and pasted the same one over and over. I made is slightly different sizes and rotated it for variety. I did trace a few different flowers and not use the same one for everyone.
Remove the fabric back, and you have this cute design ready to cut! Fun right! I now need to make something with that blue fabric so I can use this file I made.
Here are a few other Silhouette projects I’ve made:
Amber says
I’m not very crafty, so that just pretty much blew my mind! The dress turned out SO cute!! Thanks for linking up with us at the Best of the Blogosphere. We’d love to see you back with a new post tomorrow!
Alli @ Tornadough Alli says
This looks so great!! I’m not a crafty person but I would love to try this! Thank you for sharing with us at Throwback Thursday, this will be featured at tonights party!
Christine | Mid-Life Croissant says
Oh my god this is so awesome! If I did this my kids would look great and I’d save so much money. Fantastic idea! I HAVE to learn to sew, too. Thanks for linking up at #SaucySaturdays.