Free Christmas stocking SVG files

How a one-colour stocking shows its parts

A stocking is a red leg with a white cuff, heel and toe, which one colour cannot show. So the cuff is drawn wider than the leg, and thin lines about 1.4 mm wide are cut under the cuff, round the heel and across the toe. Each line stops short of the outline and leaves a bridge about 2.6 mm wide at each end, which is what keeps the stocking in one piece. Patterns such as stripes, stars and hearts are holes in the leg: put white, gold or glitter card behind them.

For true red and white, use the stocking in pieces. The leg, cuff, heel patch and toe patch are separate shapes that fit together like a jigsaw, with a small gap between them, so nothing has to overlap exactly.

Sizes, names and materials

Every file is 100 mm on its longer side. At that size the single stockings have nothing narrower than 1.6 mm, and most are 2 mm or more, so they cut well in vinyl, card and felt. For a gift tag or a place card at 40 to 50 mm, pick the silhouette, the classic or the polka dot stocking and leave the fair isle one for larger cuts. The stocking with a blank name cuff has a cuff about 51 mm wide and 29 mm deep at full size, with 18 mm of clear space between its two rows of stitches: room for a short name in one line, or a single large initial.

Felt and thin wood both suit a stocking. In 3 mm plywood the hanging loop is the weakest part, a ring about 2.6 mm wide, so cut at 120 mm or more if the stocking will really hang by it.

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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