Free lavender SVG files

Small buds on thin stems

Lavender is one of the finer plants to cut: the stems are slim and the buds are small. On these files the stems are 2.3 to 2.8 mm wide and the buds 4 to 8 mm long when the file is 100 mm tall, and each bud is welded to the stem along its base. That is comfortable in vinyl from about 70 mm tall. In card and wood, cut single sprigs at 100 mm or more, or pick the simple lavender, whose stem is 4 mm wide and whose buds are plain circles.

Because the spikes are so slender, lavender suits tall narrow things: bookmarks, the side of a tumbler, a soap wrapper, a seed packet or the margin of a letter.

Two colours from one cut

Real lavender is grey-green below and violet above, and the change comes exactly where the flower spike starts. With a one-piece sprig you can get both colours by cutting the file twice and trimming each copy just under the lowest whorl of buds. The layered lavender has the stems, flowers and bow as separate pieces already.

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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