This wall-hanging holder keeps four spare rolls in plain sight and within reach. A flat back panel carries four round cups in a neat row, and two loops at the top let it hang from hooks, a rail, or the back of a door.
The color scheme is soft and warm: butter yellow for the panel and pocket bodies, mocha brown for the pocket rims, the panel border, and the hanging loops. Everything is dense single crochet, so the fabric is firm, has a fine texture, and holds its shape when loaded.
This pattern uses US crochet terms. The finished panel measures 22 x 7 in (55.9 x 17.8 cm), and each pocket is about 4.75 in (12.1 cm) across and 3.25 in (8.3 cm) tall.
The construction is simple. You work the panel in rows with shaped corners, add a two-round brown border, crochet four cups from the bottom up, sew them to the panel along marked stitch columns, and finish with two folded tabs for hanging.
Finished Size and Construction
- Finished panel size: 22 x 7 in (55.9 x 17.8 cm)
- Skill level: Advanced beginner
- Terminology: US
- Yarn weight: Medium / worsted (#4) cotton
- Hook: 4.0 mm (US G-6)
- Number of pieces: 7 (1 panel, 4 pockets, 2 hanging tabs)
- Layout: 4 pockets in a single horizontal row
- Panel size before border: 21 x 6 in (53.3 x 15.2 cm)
- Border depth: 0.5 in (1.3 cm) on every side
- Pocket size: 4.75 in (12.1 cm) diameter, 3.25 in (8.3 cm) tall
- Hanging tab size: 4 x 1 in (10.2 x 2.5 cm) before folding
Materials
Use a smooth, firm worsted cotton or cotton blend. Cotton keeps the cups upright and handles bathroom humidity well. Avoid fuzzy or very stretchy acrylics, which let the pockets sag under the weight of the rolls.
- Color A, butter yellow: about 160 g / 300 m (328 yd)
- Color B, mocha brown: about 50 g / 95 m (104 yd)
These quantities include a safety margin of roughly 25 percent for gauge swatches, sewing, and small tension differences.
Tools:
- 4.0 mm (US G-6) crochet hook
- Tapestry needle
- About 20 locking stitch markers
- Rigid ruler or tape measure
- Scissors
- Rustproof pins and a blocking mat or folded towel
Abbreviations (US Terms)
- ch – chain
- sc – single crochet
- sc2tog – single crochet 2 together
- sl st – slip stitch
- st(s) – stitch(es)
- BLO – back loop only
- MR – magic ring
- inc – 2 sc in the same stitch
- rnd(s) – round(s)
Special stitch – sc2tog: Insert hook in the next st, yarn over and pull up a loop, insert hook in the following st, yarn over and pull up a loop, yarn over and draw through all 3 loops on the hook.
Gauge and Checkpoints
Gauge: 16 sc and 16 rows = 4 in (10.2 cm) in sc worked firmly with a 4.0 mm hook.
This square gauge matters. It lets one sc per row end lie flat along the panel sides, and it makes each pocket round line up with one panel row during sewing.
Test one piece first. Make a single pocket before anything else. It is small, uses every technique except the border, and tells you quickly whether your gauge is right.
Checkpoints:
- Pocket base after Rnd 10: about 4.75 in (12.1 cm) across
- Finished pocket: 3.25 in (8.3 cm) tall from the base ridge to the top of the rim
- Panel after Row 4: 21 in (53.3 cm) wide
- Panel after Row 24: 6 in (15.2 cm) tall
- Panel after border: 22 x 7 in (55.9 x 17.8 cm)
If your pieces are too big, go down 0.5 mm in hook size. If they are too small, go up 0.5 mm. If only the row height is off, adjust your yarn tension rather than the hook. A pocket smaller than 4.5 in (11.4 cm) across will be tight on standard rolls.
Pocket (Make 4)
Each pocket is worked in continuous rounds from the center of the base up. Mark the first st of each round and move the marker up as you go.
Base
With Color A:
Rnd 1: MR, 6 sc in ring. (6 sts)
Rnd 2: Inc in each st around. (12 sts)
Rnd 3: Sc 1, inc 6 times. (18 sts)
Rnd 4: Sc 2, inc 6 times. (24 sts)
Rnd 5: Sc 3, inc 6 times. (30 sts)
Rnd 6: Sc 4, inc 6 times. (36 sts)
Rnd 7: Sc 5, inc 6 times. (42 sts)
Rnd 8: Sc 6, inc 6 times. (48 sts)
Rnd 9: Sc 7, inc 6 times. (54 sts)
Rnd 10: Sc 8, inc 6 times. (60 sts)
Checkpoint: The base is about 4.75 in (12.1 cm) across. A slight cup is normal with this firm gauge and helps the pocket form its rounded bottom.
Walls
Rnd 11: Sc in BLO of each st around. (60 sts)
This round creates a ridge where the base meets the wall, so the pocket bottom turns up cleanly.
Rnds 12–20: Sc in each st around. (60 sts each round)
You now have 10 wall rounds in Color A, which is 2.5 in (6.4 cm).
Brown Rim
Change to Color B on the last yarn over of Rnd 20.
Rnds 21–23: Sc in each st around. (60 sts each round)
At the end of Rnd 23, sl st into the next st to smooth the step, fasten off, and leave a 24 in (61.0 cm) tail of Color B for sewing the rim to the panel.
Checkpoint: The pocket is 3.25 in (8.3 cm) tall from the Rnd 11 ridge to the top of the rim: 13 wall rounds at 4 rounds per inch. A standard roll stands inside with its top showing above the rim.
Weave in the starting tail only. Keep the long rim tail.
Hanging Tab (Make 2)
With Color B:
Row 1: Ch 17, sc in 2nd ch from hook and in each ch across. (16 sts)
Rows 2–4: Ch 1, turn, sc in each st across. (16 sts each row)
