Briana K Designs Releases Petal Loop Stitch Trivet Pattern for Quick, Textured Kitchen Makes

A kitchen trivet sounds like the humblest of projects, but Briana Kepner of Briana K Designs built something more useful into hers: a full tutorial for the Petal Loop Stitch, a floral-inspired textured stitch she introduced and trademarked in 2026. The Petal Loop Stitch Trivet pattern, published April 4, drops a short, satisfying make directly into makers' project queues while quietly doing double duty as stitch practice for larger Petal Loop projects down the road.

The stitch itself runs on a four-row repeat that combines simple and unique constructions to produce soft looped "petals" across the fabric surface. Visually it resembles the star stitch but with a more open, floral character, and once the rhythm clicks, the repeat becomes nearly automatic. That approachability is the point: a trivet is low-stakes enough that a maker can work through the learning curve on a small, finished object rather than committing to a blanket before they've crocheted a single petal.

Kepner's construction choice reinforces the kitchen-safe angle. The trivet is worked holding yarn double throughout, which builds the thickness and density a counter-protecting piece needs. For fiber, cotton is the material to reach for here. Unlike acrylic, which can melt or scorch under heat, cotton handles warmth without distorting, and the tight stitch definition of the Petal Loop pattern reads most clearly in solid, lighter-colored cotton or cotton-blend yarns. Kepner has applied the same double-strand cotton logic to her Wheat Stitch Hotpad, another kitchen-focused free pattern in her library, so the material guidance across her work is consistent and field-tested.

The trivet sits inside a growing Petal Loop family of patterns. The Petal Loop Stitch Washcloth launched March 16, 2026, giving makers their first structured introduction to the stitch, and a full Petal Loop Stitch Blanket extends it to a large, cozy throw. The trivet slots neatly between those two: more involved than a washcloth, far less committing than a blanket, and useful enough that multiples are easy to justify for gifting or selling at local markets.

Kepner, who is also the inventor of the Wheat Stitch and runs her pattern catalog out of Florida, has built her brand around exactly this kind of release: a short project with real technique payoff. Her Crafters Library pairs the free pattern with video tutorials and links to companion Petal Loop resources, which means a maker who finishes the trivet already has a clear on-ramp to the blanket. For yarn retailers, the pattern is a practical nudge toward single-skein cotton sales in kitchen weights. For makers fatigued by long-haul releases, it is a finished object achievable in a single sitting that also leaves them with a new stitch in their toolkit.