Free Santa hat SVG files

Making a hat read in one colour

A Santa hat is red cloth with white fur, which a single colour cannot show. These files get round it in two ways. The fur is drawn as round tufts, so the brim and the pompom look soft next to the smooth cone. And a thin line, 1.5 mm wide at 100 mm, is cut where fur meets cloth. The line stops short of the edges, so the hat is still one piece.

For real red and white, use the hat in three pieces: cut the cone from red and the brim and pompom from white, and let the white overlap the red by a millimetre or two when you stick them down.

Putting a hat on a letter or a photo

The tilted hat is turned 24 degrees so that its brim can sit across the top corner of an initial. Scale the hat until the brim is about as wide as the top of the letter, overlap them slightly and weld. For iron-on, mirror the whole design before you cut, as with any heat transfer.

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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