All right, congratulations. So hopefully, you now have a print that you're really happy with really stoked about excited to show off. And before you dive into using it, you want to go through the process of heat setting it. heat setting is going to make sure that the ink doesn't wash away when you wash it or when you use it, and it'll really keep that ink more permanent on your product. So there are two different methods that you can use to heat set your ink. This ink requires heat, whether you're using the traditional method with the speedball fabric ink or the stamp pad.

Both require heat to be set into the fabric. So one way you can do this is with a traditional iron. I have this nice miniature iron that I like to use when I'm doing a really small batch of prints. So with this is just a single so this would be perfect to hit set and I just turned it to high heat all the way up to max. Sometimes I'll put like an old T shirt or thin old fabric in between the iron and the print that I've created. Other times I'll just iron on directly on to the design, you want to make sure that your design is completely dry before you start ironing, otherwise you might smear the ink so this is dry.

So on high heat, I just move around my design with the iron for about three to five minutes, making sure that it's totally set. And I'll often go in a circular motion so that it's really getting an even application of heat. The other option is using your dryer so when I have a huge product order or many, many products that I've created all in one batch, then I will throw all of those into the dryer for about 20 minutes and then they're good to go. I always do a test just to make Make sure the ink is really set, I'll get a little dab of water on my finger and just put it over part of the ink. It's always fine. I've never had it smear if you're worried about it, and it's just a little section like in the corner of the design, just to make sure that it really is set and it's not bleeding out into other areas of the fabric.

I would love to see a photo of that final product. Again, just upload that photo into the class project section. I'll give feedback, encouragement, and I can't wait to see what you make next.