Free flip flop SVG files

How the strap is drawn

A flip flop is a sole and a Y strap, and in one colour the strap has to be shown somehow. On the solid designs here the strap is cut out of the sole as a hole that stops about 2 mm short of the edge, so each sandal lifts off the mat as a single piece and whatever is underneath becomes the strap colour. On the monogram frame it is the other way round: the strap is solid and the sole is an open band. If you want real two-colour sandals, use the layered design, which has the soles, the straps and the flowers as separate layers.

Sizes and uses

Each sole is drawn about four tenths as wide as it is long, close to the proportions of a real sandal, so a pair fills a square. For a beach bag or a towel, 150 to 200 mm across the pair reads well from a distance; for a tumbler, 60 to 70 mm. The polka dot, striped and zentangle soles have small pieces to weed, so keep those at 80 mm long or more. The left and right sandals are mirror images, with the toe post nearer the big toe on each.

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.

Questions