Bitmap to SVG

[jim cubie]

I have an image that I can only find in a bitmap format. (attached) However, when I try to cut it on a Cricut machine it does not cut the blue border correctly.  Sometimes it cuts on the outside of the blue border, sometimes the inside. Cricut, a cutting machine, will cut it right if it is a svg file.  I have looked at the tutorial about Tracing, but you end up with an image that you have to completely redraw.  Is there a way that I can just modify the border and save the file as an svg file?  It is only the border that I am worried about.

[Moini]

Can Cricut work with images that contain both raster and vector data?...

And which is the blue border? For me, the picture is only red and black.

[jim cubie]

In the middle is a flying horse.  Below it letters.  The border is the narrow strip around the outer edge. On this screen the border looks black.  Cricut needs an svg image to cut it cleanly, according to their tech support.

[Moini]

So, first thing to do would be to get a larger version of the image, if you really want to cut the horse, and need the whole file in vector data, using the trace bitmap feature. It's just much too small for getting a good trace.

If the problem were really only the frame, then that can be drawn quickly using the Bézier tool (b), and then converting stroke to path.
You would only need to switch to the Bézier tool, then click on all the corner points (10 of them) and finish it by clicking on the first point again, then drag on the curved segments with the node tool (n) until their shape is as you want it, and then adjust stroke width and color with the Fill and Stroke (Ctrl+Shift+F) dialog, second and third tab. Then do Path > Stroke to Path and you're done.

[jim cubie]

Thanks very much.  That will work.