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    Home » Cricut Crafting

    Quick Cricut Craft: DIY Shamrock Crochet T-Shirt

    Published: Feb 23, 2018 · Modified: Feb 8, 2021 by Tamara Kelly · 14 Comments

    No one knows exactly when or where crochet began - though there are plenty of theories! One thing is for sure: Irish crochet saved many lives in the mid-1800s - possibly including a few of my own ancestors.

    Additionally, St. Patrick's Day has become quite an event for our family the last couple of years, so I wanted to make a festive t-shirt that honored that crochet history just a little bit - and so I designed the Shamrock Crochet T-Shirt using the Cricut Maker and Happy Crafters Iron-On Vinyl!

    Quick Cricut Craft: DIY Shamrock Crochet T-Shirt with Happy Crafters! Tutorial on Moogly! Disclaimer: Disclaimer: I received the Cricut Maker and Happy Crafters products free
    for review. The opinions and text are all mine. This post includes affiliate links.

    To start out with, I used Stitchworks Crochet Chart's online program to create a crochet symbol chart for a shamrock - this is how that looked:

    Quick Cricut Craft: DIY Shamrock Crochet T-Shirt with Happy Crafters! Tutorial on Moogly!

    Then, I uploaded the image to Cricut Design Space, where I was able to clean it up and save it as a cut file - which you can now use too! CLICK HERE to open the large JPEG file in a new tab, which you can save and upload to Cricut Design Space. If that doesn't work, please email me at tamarakelly@mooglyblog.com and I will be happy to email you the SVG and JPG file directly.

    Finally, I used the new Cricut Templates that are built into Design Space to help me decide what size to make the iron-on. So handy!

    Quick Cricut Craft: DIY Shamrock Crochet T-Shirt with Happy Crafters! Tutorial on Moogly!

    Ready to cut! I met the Happy Crafters folks at the Creativation conference earlier this year, and they were super nice - and their Happy Crafters Glitter Heat Transfer Vinyl is so pretty! And I was also super excited to see that they sell blank apparel and bags for ironing onto too! Happy Crafters was kind enough to send me some of their 12" x 20" Glitter Heat Transfer Vinyl in gold and green and one of their blank V-neck t-shirts!

    Quick Cricut Craft: DIY Shamrock Crochet T-Shirt with Happy Crafters! Tutorial on Moogly!

    Before cutting iron-on vinyl, it's always important to mirror the image! Well, it's super important when there are letters - with this one it's a little more subtle if you do forget. But still, a good tip.

    Quick Cricut Craft: DIY Shamrock Crochet T-Shirt with Happy Crafters! Tutorial on Moogly!

    It took a few minutes to cut, and next time I think I would set the pressure on the Cricut Maker higher, as this vinyl seems a little thicker. But it did the job even on the Default setting, thankfully.

    Quick Cricut Craft: DIY Shamrock Crochet T-Shirt with Happy Crafters! Tutorial on Moogly!

    The Cricut BrightPad and Tool Set was invaluable for weeding this one! Be sure to take your time - everything else here is pretty fast, but this part is where you want to pay attention.

    Quick Cricut Craft: DIY Shamrock Crochet T-Shirt with Happy Crafters! Tutorial on Moogly!

    Finally, I fired up the Cricut EasyPress to 320 degrees and set it for a 15-second countdown. It was hot by the time I had my pressing cloth down! After preheating the shirt, I centered the design and pressed it on.

    Quick Cricut Craft: DIY Shamrock Crochet T-Shirt with Happy Crafters! Tutorial on Moogly!

    I made sure to hit each of the petals of the shamrock as well as the stem with its own press since the design was bigger than 9" across.  After letting it cool for a few minutes, I peeled off the plastic...

    Quick Cricut Craft: DIY Shamrock Crochet T-Shirt with Happy Crafters! Tutorial on Moogly!

    And now I'm ready for the St. Patrick's Day festivities!

    Quick Cricut Craft: DIY Shamrock Crochet T-Shirt with Happy Crafters! Tutorial on Moogly!

    You can make your own DIY Shamrock Crochet T-Shirt - or project bag, or tote, or whatever you want! Most of the supplies I've used are linked throughout the post, and here they are again for your shopping convenience:

    FREE - Shamrock Crochet SVG File

    Cricut Maker

    Happy Crafters Glitter Heat Transfer Vinyl

    Happy Crafters Blank Apparel

    Cricut BrightPad

    Cricut Weeding Tools

    Cricut EasyPress

    Quick Cricut Craft: DIY Shamrock Crochet T-Shirt with Happy Crafters! Tutorial on Moogly!

    Happy crafting, and may the luck of the Irish be with you!

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    1. 1

      ELIZABETH RIVERA

      February 23, 2018 at 10:24 am

      Thanks for the Crochet Chart program. It is awesome.

      Reply
      • 2

        Tamara Kelly

        February 23, 2018 at 2:54 pm

        🙂 I hope you enjoy it!

        Reply
    2. 3

      Rachel

      February 23, 2018 at 3:06 pm

      Every time I click on the link for the svg file it says that the project is set to private. Is there something special I need to do, this pattern is awesome and I want to make one tonight.

      Reply
      • 4

        Tamara Kelly

        February 23, 2018 at 5:15 pm

        Ah shoot, working on it now!

        Reply
        • 5

          Rachel

          February 23, 2018 at 5:19 pm

          Thank you so much! It's working now.

          Reply
          • 6

            Tamara Kelly

            February 26, 2018 at 9:59 am

            Oh good! Thank you for confirming that! 😀 I'm still just a beginner really when it comes to Cricut files and such - but I'm having fun!

            Reply
      • 7

        Tamara Kelly

        February 23, 2018 at 5:19 pm

        Okay, I've had the SVG file uploaded and fixed the links! Sorry about that!!

        Reply
    3. 8

      Claudine

      February 23, 2018 at 3:46 pm

      Cool idea! The link to your Cricut project displays the following message in Design Space: "Project Not Available - This project has been saved as a private."

      Reply
      • 9

        Tamara Kelly

        February 23, 2018 at 5:18 pm

        Thank you! I've just had the file uploaded to our server as a downloadable SVG file, so now you can save it to use with Cricut or any other machine that uses those files. 🙂

        Reply
    4. 10

      Patty

      February 24, 2018 at 9:24 am

      Too cute and very clever! Go Irish ☘

      Reply
      • 11

        Tamara Kelly

        February 26, 2018 at 9:58 am

        😀 Thank you!

        Reply
    5. 12

      Senta Holasek

      February 25, 2018 at 5:01 am

      Schade dass das kleeblatt nur 3 blätter hat. Als glücksklee müssten es 4 sein! Aber das ist sicher kein problem eines einzufügen. Gefällt mir.

      Reply
    6. 13

      Amy

      March 08, 2020 at 11:08 pm

      Hello, I was hoping to make this shirt, but it won't let me in the design space and when I try to download the SVG file it's loading an error message. Any advice?

      Reply
      • 14

        Tamara Kelly

        March 09, 2020 at 11:38 am

        Yes, please email me at tamarakelly@mooglyblog.com and I will email it to you! 🙂

        Reply

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