Free leprechaun SVG files

Cutting the hat, the beard and the buckle

Every design here is built from the same three things: a tall hat with a square buckle, a round nose and a beard of round curls. The curls are the part to watch. Each is about 15 mm across when the face is 100 mm tall, so in vinyl the face weeds easily from about 70 mm, and in card it cuts cleanly at 50 mm. The band of the hat is a window each side of the buckle, with the crown joined to the brim at both edges and through the buckle, so the hat lifts in one piece.

The whole figure is finer: the stripes of the stockings and the buckles of the shoes are about 2 mm at 100 mm tall. Cut the standing and dabbing figures at 150 mm or more, and use the silhouette, which has no cut-outs at all, for anything smaller or for wood.

Footprints on the windowsill

The stencil is for the morning of 17 March. Cut it from stencil film or thin card at about 150 mm wide, which makes each print close to 30 mm long, hold it on a windowsill, a floor or a sheet of paper and dab washable green paint through it with a sponge. Move it along and repeat for a longer trail. The legs are made to hang: fix them under a hat, a wreath or a shelf so that they look as if someone small has fallen in.

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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