Free candy cane SVG files

One piece or two colours

A candy cane wants two colours, and there are two ways to get them. The striped designs here are single pieces: a thin rail down each edge holds the stripes together, so you cut once in red and put it on a white surface. The rails are 2 mm wide when the cane is 100 mm tall.

For a true two-colour cane, cut the solid candy cane in white and the stripes for layering in red. The stripes are loose pieces, so lift them all at once with transfer tape to keep their spacing, and lay them over the white cane.

Sizes that work

A real candy cane is about 130 to 150 mm tall, and these files look right from 60 mm upwards. Below that the rails on the striped canes get too thin to weed, so switch to the chunky striped cane or a plain one. The plain canes, the crossed canes and the heart have no thin parts and cut well in wood, acrylic and felt.

How to open the files

• Cricut Design Space: choose Upload, pick the SVG, and add it to the canvas. Set the width you want; the shape is already welded.
• Silhouette Studio: Designer Edition and above open the SVG. The free Basic Edition does not, so open the DXF instead.
• LightBurn, xTool Creative Space and Glowforge: import the SVG, then set the layer to cut, score or engrave.
• Inkscape, Illustrator and Affinity: open the SVG. It is a plain filled path, so you can recolour it, add a stroke or combine it with your own work.
• Printing or sublimation: use the PNG, which has a transparent background.

Each design page lists the file’s narrowest part at seven sizes, so you can tell whether it will survive at the size you plan to cut.

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