Free strawberry SVG files

Seeds are the fiddly part

A strawberry is a broad, sturdy shape, so the outline cuts well in anything. The work is in the seeds. Each one is a teardrop hole about 6 mm long and 3.7 mm wide when the berry is 100 mm tall, and there are around twenty of them. In vinyl, weed them with a pin and they lift out cleanly. Below about 50 mm tall they become too small to weed in comfort, so switch to the strawberry silhouette, which has none.

The calyx, the ring of leaves on top, ends in six sharp points. Burnish those well on heat transfer vinyl, as points are the first parts to lift in the wash. On a laser the points char first, so keep the power modest or cut the berry at 70 mm or more.

Red fruit, green top

For a two-colour berry from a single-colour design, cut it once in red and once in green and trim both along the cut line under the leaves, which is there to guide you. Keep the fruit from the red and the calyx and stalk from the green. The layered strawberry does this for you and adds a third sheet of yellow seeds to place on top.

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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