Free Crochet Toilet Paper Roll Cover Pattern

Toilet paper rolls disappear fast, and a plain spare roll sitting on the shelf never looks pretty. This soft, striped Crochet Toilet Paper Roll Cover turns an ordinary spare roll into a sweet bathroom accent, with a handy handle so you can grab it in seconds.

Have you ever noticed how a spare toilet paper roll just sits there looking dull and forgotten? This soft, striped crochet cover fixes that instantly, turning an ordinary spare roll into a sweet bathroom accent, with a handy handle so you can grab it in seconds. It’s a quick, cozy little project that mixes two yarn colors, simple stitches, and a neat handle opening perfect for beginners who want a useful, gift-worthy makeover for something as plain as a spare roll of tissue.

Project Overview

This free crochet pattern makes a cozy, ribbed cover for a spare toilet paper roll. Worked flat in a textured two-color stitch, it wraps snugly around the roll and closes with a neat handle opening, so it doubles as a decorative storage piece and a simple carry-along for guests or travel.

It’s a beginner-friendly project that uses simple stitches you already know. In an evening or two, you’ll have a handmade piece that adds charm to any bathroom shelf.

Skill Level

Beginner to confident beginner.

This is one of the best easy crochet projects for anyone who already knows single crochet and wants to practice working in a simple repeating pattern. There’s no shaping, no counting complicated increases, and no fussy finishing — just steady rows and one small handle opening.

Materials and Supplies

Here’s everything you need to gather before you start this crochet tutorial:

• Yarn: A worsted weight (medium, #4) yarn in two coordinating colors — a marled purple-and-white yarn plus a solid white yarn works beautifully, but you can use any two shades you love
• Crochet hook: A hook sized to match your yarn (a 5.0mm–5.5mm hook is a comfortable choice for worsted weight yarn)
• Stitch markers: A couple of locking stitch markers to mark row starts and the handle placement
• Yarn needle: A large-eye tapestry needle for weaving in ends and sewing the side seam
• Scissors: For snipping yarn as you switch colors and finish
• A spare toilet paper roll: To use as your sizing guide while you crochet and wrap the cover
• Optional accessory: A small ribbon, button, or wooden bead if you want to dress up the handle opening

Because this project is flat, seamed, and stuffing-free, you won’t need safety eyes or fiberfill here — this pattern skips those amigurumi extras and keeps the supply list short and simple.

Crochet Techniques Used

You’ll only need a small handful of techniques for this handmade crochet idea, which is exactly why it’s such a great confidence-building project:

• Starting with a foundation chain
• Single crochet (and a simple textured stitch pattern worked in rows)
• Working a small buttonhole-style opening for the handle
• Changing yarn colors cleanly between rows
• Sewing pieces together with a yarn needle (the side seam)
• Adding a simple single crochet edging/border

Step-by-Step Crochet Pattern Instructions

Below is the full walkthrough, matched up with each stage of the project so you can follow along picture by picture.

Step 1: Start Your Foundation Row

In the first photo, you can see the hook loaded with the marled purple-and-white yarn, working the very first stitches of a foundation chain. Hold your hook and yarn the way that feels natural to you, chain the number of stitches needed to match the width of your toilet paper roll (measure loosely around the roll and add a little for ease), then turn and work your first row of single crochet back across the chain. This first row sets the width for your entire cover, so keep your tension relaxed and even.

Step 2: Build Up the Textured Panel

The second photo shows a narrow strip standing up between the hands, with several rows already worked. You can clearly see the textured, ribbed look of the stitch pattern starting to form. Keep repeating your row pattern here — chain up, turn, and work your chosen stitch across each row. This is the most relaxing part of the whole project, and a great place to watch a show while your rectangle slowly grows.

Step 3: Keep Crocheting Until the Panel Is Long Enough

By the third photo, the piece has grown into a proper rectangle, wide and long enough to wrap fully around a toilet paper roll with a little overlap for seaming. Lay your work-in-progress next to your spare roll every few rows to check that you have enough fabric to comfortably wrap around the tube with a slight overlap at the back.

Step 4: Create the Handle Opening

The fourth photo shows the panel being wrapped around the roll for a test fit, with a small slit or opening already worked near one edge. To make this handle opening, skip a small group of stitches in the middle of one row (instead of crocheting into them, simply chain across the gap), then crochet into the remaining stitches on the return row as normal. This leaves a small oval opening once the piece is folded, which becomes your carry handle.

Step 5: Check the Fit and Flatten the Piece

In the fifth photo, the finished flat panel is laid out fully open, and you can clearly see the handle opening positioned near the top edge. Before seaming anything, lay your panel flat like this and double-check that the handle sits where you want it and that the panel wraps the roll with a neat, snug overlap.

Step 6: Add the Contrast Edging

The sixth photo shows the hook working a fresh round of single crochet stitches in white yarn along the top edge of the piece. This edging tidies up the raw edge, reinforces the handle opening so it doesn’t stretch out of shape, and adds a lovely contrast border. Work single crochet evenly around the top opening, adding a couple of extra stitches at the curve of the handle so it lies flat instead of puckering.

Step 7: Seam the Sides and Finish

Once your edging is complete, fold the panel around your spare roll and use your yarn needle to sew the side seam closed with a simple whip stitch or mattress stitch, matching your yarn color to the panel as you go. Weave in all your loose ends on the inside of the cover so nothing shows on the outside.

Step 8: Slide the Roll Inside

The seventh and final photo shows the completed cover slipped over the spare roll, with the white trim framing the top and the roll peeking out underneath. Slide your spare toilet paper roll inside the finished cover, and you’re done a cozy, handmade cover ready to sit on a shelf, in a basket, or tucked into an overnight bag.