Cliff Notes:
- VLR - Amazon is the only place I know of to find it.
- Apply to the back of the fabric. Stretch the fabric. Peel off the htv.
- Super easy. Worked great!
- I reapplied a new design over the area where I had used the VLR, and it went on beautifully! No problems at all.
I love this pillow (second from the left), despite my mistakes in not welding the pumpkins to the truck... But my husband and I did not get married in 1993. That's when our twins were born. We got married in 1991. Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking either. :-)
VLR is something I had heard mentioned a few times on different facebook groups, so when I placed my last amazon order, I added a can to my order. It has sat on the shelf ever since. I was intimidated by it.
Today, Design Space was down. (Still is, actually...) so it was a good time to try the VLR. My first challenge was opening it. Although I knew it couldn't actually be aerosol, when I saw I had to puncture the top (which the label says is plastic, but sounds more like metal when tapped) it made me nervous to use a hammer and nail. I couldn't think of another way to do this, so a hammer and nail it was.
That worked fine!
The next instruction was to remove the red tip from the spout - my spout did not have a red tip. The cap appeard to be missing. (So once I was done, I taped the top close, because this smells like something that might evaporate, and it is not exactly cheap.)
The next instructions are to turn the item inside out and apply the liquid to the back of the design. That sounds easy enough, but it is actually a little tricky, if you cannot see the design through the fabric, and do not want to remove all of the vinyl. Still, I managed well enough. I ended up losing both the 3 and the 9 - but I don't mind replacing two small numbers, I was replacing one anway!
Once you apply the liquid, you stretch the fabric, and then when turned right side out, the vinyl comes off REALLY easily! Or at least it did for this one!
In addition to my date mistake, I had this pillow, that my sister in law had asked me to make. She brought the cover. I applied the htv. Then two weeks later, my nephew changed his mind and enlisted in the Navy, instead of the Air Force. She had suggested I just add all of the branches to the pillow and make the Navy the largest.. but I thought I would like it better if I could remove the htv and start fresh.
For the this second one, the material didn't have as much stretch, so the vinyl didn't pull up quite as much on it's own. It still was REALLY easy to pull up a corner and peel the vinyl right off!
(a quick video of the htv peeling off, to show you how easily it comes up!)
I reapplied a new htv design over the area where I had used the VLR to remove the old, and it went on beautifully - no problems at all!
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ANOTHER REMOVAL
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I often tackle projects purely out of curiosity. This is one of those. 🙂 I made my husband a t-shirt more than a year ago. It's one of his favorites, and I'm sure it has been washed more than 40x by now. The vinyl was wearing off. In places, the color was gone, with just the vinyl residue left behind. So I used VLR & removed the vinyl. So far, while wet, you can see the design strongly - the shirt has faded around the design. So I can reuse the shirt only if the new design covers the old - or if I use the exact same design.
Even after washing and drying the shirt, and ironing over these marks - they remained.
I think because it was more that the shirt around the vinyl had faded...
So I recovered it with the exact same design. :-)
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