This Is My Ugly Sweater SVG

About this design

For the guest who got a Thursday invitation to a Friday party. Rather than a drawing of a sweater, this file is a declaration: “This Is My” in a loose red script, then UGLY SWEATER in heavy red capitals, with a green zigzag knit band running across above the words and a matching one underneath. Press it on any plain tee or sweatshirt and the costume question is settled.

It’s lettering only, so it fits a wider range of garments than the full sweater shapes. It sits well across a chest, on the back of a hoodie or along the front of an apron.

Pieces and weeding

The solid file has 19 pieces and 5 cut-outs. Each band is one long piece, and the rest are the letters, with the script letters joined into connected runs the way handwriting is. The cut-outs are the closed spaces inside letters, such as the middle of the A and R. With so few holes, weeding is mostly a matter of peeling away the background around the letters and the gaps between the zigzag points. Start at one corner and pull slowly at a low angle so the thin script joins stay down. It passes our cut checks from about 7 inches wide.

Color layers

• Base and lines in dark green-black: everything cut as the base layer, showing as a slim outline around each letter and band
• Knit pattern in pine green: the two zigzag bands
• Lettering in Christmas red: This Is My and UGLY SWEATER

Three layers make it a quick press. If you want a single color, cut only the base layer in red or white and skip the rest; the zigzags and words still line up because they come from the same file.

Picking the shirt

• Heather gray tee: the red and green both stand out, and gray hides small alignment errors.
• White tee: crisp, but the dark outline does most of the work.
• Red sweatshirt: swap the lettering to cream in the editor so it doesn’t vanish. See changing SVG colors.
• Kids’ shirts: scale to 7 inches wide, the smallest size that still cuts cleanly.

Pressing it on a tee

1. Size the design to about 10 inches wide for an adult shirt.
2. Mirror the layers and cut them from iron-on vinyl, shiny side down.
3. Center the base layer about three inches below the collar.
4. Press the green bands next, then the red lettering, using the base outline as your guide.
5. Use the time and temperature on your vinyl’s heat guide, and peel warm or cold as it says.

Our iron-on shirt guide covers placement and layering in more detail.

Where else it works

Pairs well with

Match a friend in the Merry and Ugly design, or go full sweater with the Ho Ho Ho Ugly Sweater.