Free rolled flower SVG files

How a rolled flower is made

Cut the spiral from card or heavy paper. Start at the pointed outer end and roll the strip up tightly towards the centre, with the petal edge at the top, round a quilling tool, a skewer or a pair of tweezers. When you reach the middle, let the coil go a little so that it opens to the size you want, put a blob of hot glue or tacky glue on the round pad, and press the coil down onto it. Hold it for a few seconds.

The flower comes out at about a third of the width of the blank: a 100 mm spiral makes a flower 30 to 40 mm across, depending on how far you let it open. More turns of a narrower strip give a fuller flower; fewer turns of a broad strip give a flatter, more open one.

Paper, sizes and settings

Card of 160 to 220 gsm holds its shape best. Text-weight paper rolls easily but flops; very thick card cracks at the centre. Coloured-core card looks better than white-core, because the cut edge shows on every petal.

Scale the blank to change the flower: 150 mm for a flower of about 50 mm, 60 mm for a small filler flower. The strip gets narrower as the blank gets smaller, so the six-turn spiral should not be cut under about 80 mm. For a shadow box or a wreath, cut a dozen in three sizes and two or three colours.

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