Free sock SVG files

One sock, many patterns

Most of the socks here share one side view, about two thirds as wide as it is tall, with the leg made longer for the knee sock and shorter for the ankle sock, so they can be mixed freely on a washing line or a banner. The heel and the toe are each marked by one curved cut line, and those lines, the ribs on the cuff and every stripe stop short of the edge, which is what keeps the sock in one piece. The stripes are open bands about 3.5 mm tall; the cut lines are a little under 2 mm wide.

For labels on a drawer or a laundry basket, the plain shape and the ribbed sock work down to about 25 mm. The argyle, spotted and Christmas socks are better from 60 mm, where the diamonds and the arms of the snowflake are wide enough to weed.

Signs for the lost ones

Three designs are made for the laundry room. The lost socks sign is a blank board with three odd socks pegged under it: add your own words in lettering of your choice, cut in a second colour or welded to the board. The single sock on a line with an empty peg beside it needs no words at all. The missing sock poster has a solid bar at the top and the bottom for a heading and a line of small print. At 250 to 300 mm wide in vinyl, any of them fills the space above a washing machine.

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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