How to print on cotton fabric using an inkjet printer

What you are about to read worked for me and I have endeavoured to create a guide of exactly what I did to create some quality cloth prints on an inkjet printer.

Please do not attempt to do what I did unless you are confident you have the knowledge and experience to follow the steps without ruining your iron,  worktop, printer or marriage!!  There are plenty of people who have the correct experience to guide you through a project like this and I am sure if you ask for their help they will be glad to help you.

My son started School (reception) in January and the School has asked us to keep a pair of wellington boots in a bag at the School.
I remembered when we were at primary School (yes there were Schools then lol!) most of us had a cloth bag that we kept our P.E. kit in. So I thought I would make something for my son Mark that would do the job and also be original.
Some time ago I found some great ice hockey emblems in jpg format on the internet some were original but some were produced by artists as projects and did not seem to be copyright protected.

Here are some examples you will need to copy and paste the url into your browser:

http://www.google.co.uk/images?um=1&hl=en&biw=1440&bih=738&tbs=isch:1&sa=1&q=ice+hockey+logos&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

Some of the above examples are most likely copyright protected.

Step 1 Sourcing some fabric

I did have some t-shirt transfers somewhere but we recently moved and after an hour or two searching around my home last night I decided fate was saying a different approach was required.

I did a few searches on the internet and discovered that some people succeeded in stiffening fabric enough so that it would feed directly into an  inkjet printer.

Mostly this was done using freezer paper (did not have any of that either) but a few people had used spray starch and although I had no cans of starch I did have some cornflour

I found a pair of my old white boxer shorts and although they were still bright white the elastic had seen better days so they were going to end up as painting and decorating rags soon anyway

I cut the elasticated hem off the top with scissors and then looked for a clear run without seams the piece of cotton I ended up with was a bit larger than an A3 sheet of paper.