These free printable saint patrick’s day designs are perfect for making your own saint patrick’s day shirts with hand lettered ‘pinch free’ design.

Pinch Free! Such a cute hand lettered design for a saint patrick's day shirt

Saint Patrick’s Day is coming! Do you do anything for the holiday? We don’t usually do too much, a sneaky leprechaun visits our house each year (we try to catch him so see what he looks like) and we wear green so we don’t get pinched. But why wear green when you could wear green on a cute Saint Patrick’s Day t-shirt? Any excuse to craft a t-shirt, amiright?

The kids and I have been having so much fun playing with my Cricut to make matching tees for every holiday and event. I thought it would be fun to share a free hand lettered design with you to help you stay ‘pinch proof’ this Saint Patrick’s day!

Pinch Proof green hand lettering on a black t-shirt
Text reads: Free Saint Patrick's Day T-Shirt Design

Plus you can match us which would make you part of the cool club (your number one motivation, I’m sure). And this time around, we even got S a shirt. Eventually, we’ll have him wanting to be part of these matching outfit schemes. We even got a photo of us all in our shirts. It’s not the best family photo ever (Windsor *really* wanted to be running around instead of staying still), but I’ll take it.

You can see that I made the ‘pinch free’ transfers different sizes (and different greens) for each of us. All the boys got them smaller over where a pocket would be. I really love a pocket tee design. Aubrey and I got ours larger over the whole front of the shirt- and she got glitter vinyl which is totally the way to a little girl’s heart.

See how none of us are crying in this photo? That’s all it takes to make this mama happy. Most of them either had tears or suuuuch goofy faces… like these:

But hey… you can see the t-shirts, so it’s a win, right? Ha! Alright, so this has kind of turned into a family photo post… but I don’t regret it. Let me run down the instructions for you to make your own saint patrick’s day shirt and get you the free hand lettered design before I share a *few* more photos (I can’t help myself).

GRAB THE ‘PINCH FREE’ hand lettered design here

*As always, free printables and cut files on Lemon Thistle are for personal use only, make one for you, your mama and your classroom, but you can’t redistribute my work for gain*

How to Make Your Own Pinch Proof Saint Patrick’s Day Shirt

To make your own Saint Patrick’s Day tees, grab the freebie above and load this design into your cutting machine software.

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For Cricut, this is Cricut Design Space and I have a whole tutorial on how to upload your own files to Cricut (and the different types of files you can upload!) right here.

This is a PNG file so it doesn’t have a background. Just make sure to save as a cut only image. Size it how you like on your canvas, then click ‘make it’.

As with any iron on material, make sure to click ‘reverse’ before cutting it out. If you’d like a more detailed explanation of cutting iron on vinyl designs- this post here has screen shots, pictures, and all of my fave tips.

I use my Cricut Explore Air for all my cut outs and it’s a total dream to work with. Once it’s cut out, you need to weed your design before ironing on. Weeding is just removing the material you don’t want in your design. Weeding iron on vinyl is my favourite material to weed- I love that it doesn’t stick to my hands!

Make sure you iron it on for long enough that the backing peels off clean but not so long that the backing starts to shrivel from the heat. If you’re using a Cricut Easy Press, you can use their handy heat guide here.

As for tees- try choose something with very little stretch. You’ll have the best luck with long term wear that way. We just grabbed ours on clearance at Superstore. I’m a big fan of grey obviously, but the beauty of heat transfer vinyl is that you can put it on any color surface (even black!) and the color of the vinyl is just as vibrant (not like the print and iron stuff).

The iron on vinyl colors we used are this one in kelly green and this glittery one in kiwi green. Let cool before peeling back, then enjoy!

If you wanted to have coordinating but not *matching* Saint Patrick’s day shirts, I also shared these ‘you are my lucky charm’ shamrock cut file for free.

Alright… prepare for more family photos ;)