Leaf Trivet Free Crochet Pattern

I love to decorate my home with useful items that I have made with my own two hands. Why buy trivets when you can make them at home? These leaf shaped trivets are the perfect thing to bring your love of crafting into your space as a usable item. Grab your hook and let’s make a set of Tunisian Leaf Trivets using this free crochet pattern!

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Leaf Trivet Crochet Patterns

Available in two sizes, these leaf trivets are super chic and will take the style in your kitchen up as well as the functionality. Make one of the larger leaf trivets to use with your 9″ x 13″ baking dishes or cookie sheets, and use the smaller leaf pattern to make a normal size trivet to use with a sauce pan etc. Note that these are not intended to protect your fingers! Trivets are to be used as a barrier against the hot baking dish or pan and the countertop or table.

These trivets are made using Herrschners Cottage Cotton, a 60% cotton/40% acrylic blend that is worsted weight. I made one tester square pad using the Tunisian Simple Stitch to check for durability when used with the heat of a dish straight out of the oven. It did great and has continued to work beautifully!

Now I’ve taken the Tunisian Simple Stitch and added some increases and decreases that create a cute little leaf. Perfect! Let’s make a set, shall we?

For this pattern we are using one ball of the Cottage Cotton, but we are making it triple stranded. In order to do this I am doing what is called “chain plying” where I use my electric yarn winder from Caydo to chain ply as you see in this chain ply tutorial. If you’re not prepared to chain ply, you can alternately hold three strands of worsted weight cotton together OR use a heavier weight cotton such as Cushy Cotton. The overall size may be affected but it should be negligible.

One ball of Cottage Cotton will make both the large leaf trivet AND the small trivet. Awesome!

Other great yarns would be anything majority cotton. You could use the Village Craft Cotton, Dishie from WeCrochet, Lily Sugar’n Cream, or Premier Home Cotton.

Ready? Let’s make some cute crocheted leaf trivets! 🍂

Materials:

Herrschners Cottage Cotton Yarn (worsted weight 60% cotton, 40% acrylic)
-approx. 65 yards total for small
-approx. 135 yards total for large

Tunisian crochet hook in size 9mm

Gauge: approx. 11 sts x 9 rows = 4″ square using Tunisian Simple Stitch

Finished Dimensions:

Large = 15″ x 8″ (38 x 20 cm)
Small = 8″ x 6″ (20 x 15 cm)

Pattern Notes:

Pattern written in US terms.

Backward Pass = Chain one, Yarn Over (YO), pull through two loops.

If you need more help with Tunisian Crochet be sure to check out the Ultimate Guide to Tunisian Crochet. If this is your first foray into Tunisian crochet and you fall in love with it, join the free Tunisian Basics crochet along! This is a 14-week long free course that will be delivered to you in bite sided pieces via email. Sign up here:

Small Pattern:

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Row 1: Magic Circle, [YO, pull up loop in circle] 2x (5 loops on hook). Backward Pass as normal. (5)

Rows 2 through 7: YO, TSS in each st across, YO, Edge Stitch. Backward Pass as normal. (ending with 17 sts)

Rows 8 through 12: TSS in each st across. Edge Stith. Backward Pass as normal. (17)

Rows 13 through 17: TSS2tog, TSS until 3 sts remain, TSS2tog, Edge Stitch. Backward Pass as normal. (ending with 7 sts)

Row 18: TSS2tog, TSS in next, TSS2tog, Edge Stitch. Backward Pass: YO, pull through all loops. Ch-1 to fasten off and weave in all ends.

Large Pattern:

Stem: Fsc-5

Row 1: YO, Edge Stitch. Backward Pass. (3)

Row 2: YO, TSS, YO, Edge Stitch. Backward Pass. (5)

Row 3: TSS in first, YO, TSS (mark this stitch), YO, TSS, Edge Stitch. Backward Pass. (7)

Row 4: TSS to marker, YO, TSS in marked st (move marker up), YO, TSS across, Edge Stitch. Backward Pass. (9)

Rows 5 through 10: repeat row 4 (ending with 21 sts)

Rows 11 through 19: TSS in each st across. Edge Stitch. Backward Pass. (21)

Row 20: TSS to three sts before marker, TSS2tog, TSS in next, TSS2tog, TSS across, Edge Stitch. Backward Pass. (19)

Rows 21 through 27: repeat row 20 (ending with 5 sts)

Row 28: TSS3tog, Edge Stitch. Backward Pass: YO, pull through all loops. Ch-1 to fasten off and weave in all ends.

That’s it! I hope you love this pattern and that you’ll make and use many of them. These would also make for a great house warming gift if someone you love is moving soon!