Free Riot Wall Hanging Crochet Pattern

Learn to make the Riot Wall Hanging from a free crochet graph by Divine Debris, perfect for knitting, cross stitch, and more fiber arts.

Hi again! I didn’t intend to make another pattern this month but creativity sometimes comes at ya when you don’t mean it to and you’d just got to make something. You know? And this month it means another Pride month design – the Riot Wall Hanging crochet pattern.

Recently I was thinking about, ya know, everything. I was thinking about my own work with Pride patterns and my own contributions to causes. As I said on my Be Brave Poster post, this year marks 10 years of marriage equality in the US, as it is the anniversary of Obergefell v Hodges and that’s wild to think about. Weirder still? The Riot! album by Paramore is 18. Yep… just think on that.

And while I was thinking on these things, I realize I had one more Pride month design in me this year – the Riot Wall Hanging. This is simple and direct – Riot, riot, riot. We celebrate Pride month because our elders fought, literally, for our ability to do so. The first Pride (and beginning of a new era of gay rights) was a riot – against police brutality and raids. If you don’t now the history of the Stonewall Riots, I urge you to read up on them. Know your history before you’re not able to.

For making this pattern, I used mostly tapestry and that means I crocheted over the inactive yarn as I worked across the rows. If you’d like a bit more insight on how I did that, I’ve got some notes on the Cat and Bag Halloween Squares post that might be helpful (about halfway down the page). Oh! And block the finished design. I swear blocking is one of the best things you can do for color work, it helps to even out all those annoying parts that might not be “perfect.”

Below the graph is available to view, that way if you’d like to make this as sc or hdc or dc you can do it… but you can also make it in C2C if you want to work the graph on a bias. And if you’d prefer you can knit, Tunisian crochet , and even cross stitch this design using the graph as well. It’s entirely up to you 😀 I used rainbow colors (in both the graph and the border) but you can customize as you’d like for your own flag colors or whatever you have in your stash (use that stash friends!). And in keeping with industry standards, if you’d like written instructions to this pattern you can pick those up in my Ravelry shop (it’s written in back and forth rows so it won’t help you with C2C). I know talking about money makes people uncomfortable but I split up these patterns this way so that people do have an incentive to pick up the pdf, it helps me to keep making patterns here on my blog. I hope you understand.

Don’t forget! I use the proceeds from the purchases of the pdfs and ad revenue to donate to The Trevor Project and Trans Lif e line. I also think that we should, when possible, move away from corporate Pride merch and instead make our own, keeping that in the community that supports us instead of the pockets of companies who turn their backs when the politics are no longer “popular.” Again, this year marks 10 years of marriage equality in the US, as it is the anniversary of Obergefell v Hodges, and just Roe v Wade this isn’t a law set in stone and we need to be aware that we will always, sadly and probably, need to keep fighting. Take care of yourselves, my friends, and others around you. As always – trans rights are human rights.

Please note: I was provided the yarn for this pattern by Lion Brand Yarn for other personal projects, just to make something fun and without compensation. I wasn’t provided the yarn with the expectations of positive or negative reviews but I’ve used Basic Stitch yarn many times over the years and it’s fantastic. A great worsted weight yarn, I’ll probably keep using it for years to come. This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase yarn through any of the links in this post, I may be compensated. Do not make videos from my pattern, you don’t have permission even if this pattern is free.

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If you appreciate my patterns I hope you’d consider purchasing an ad-free pdf of this pattern in my Ravelry shop and Lovecrafts shop!

Where to purchase the Riot Wall Hanging crochet pattern

[Image description] Top down look at an unfinished Riot Wall Hanging crochet design - with skeins of yarn along the top of the photo and a white woman's hand holding the bottom right-hand corner of the wall hanging.

Language

American English

Level

Intermediate (need to know how to read a graph and do color work)

Materials

US G (4.00 mm) crochet hook
Worsted weight/ size #4 yarn
- 7 colors
- A: approx 1.75 – 2 oz/ 92 – 103 yds
- All others: less than 1 oz/ 52 yds of ea.
- I used Basic Stitch for this
  - See Notes section for colors
Notions: scissors, measuring tape, yarn needle

Gauge

18 sc x 21 rows = 4” (blocked)

Terms/ Stitches used

St: Stitch
Ch: Chain
RS: Right side
Sc: Single crochet

Notes

As is industry standard, this pattern is just a free graph and not written instructions but you can purchase the pattern for a fee in my Ravelry shop.
Begin with a ch 45 in color A, turn, and start in the 2nd ch from the hook. Each row begins with a “ch 1, turn” and all st counts are 44 sc for the graphed portion.
This pattern is worked from the bottom up, row by row with a turn at the beginning of the rows. A border is then added and worked in the round around the graphed portion.
The ch 1 at the beginning of the rows does not count as a stitch.
This pattern doesn’t require you to carry more than 2 colors at a time (unless you’d like to do something else). I used color A and whatever the other color in use (B – G) back and forth through the rows both were needed, crocheting over the inactive yarn as I went. I didn’t carry the 2nd color all the way to the edges.
Blocking is suggested for this pattern.
In the photos: Color A is tan, color B is purple, color C is blue, color D is green, color E is yellow, color F is orange, and color G is red. Basic Stitch was used for all colors.

Blocked Riot Wall Hanging crochet pattern Finished Product Details (including border)

Height	Width
12”	11.3”

[Image description] Top down look at a Riot Wall Hanging crochet pattern laying on a white background with skeins of yarn along the left side of the photo and a white woman's hand holding the bottom right-hand corner.

Riot Wall Hanging Crochet Pattern Graph

Key: Color A is off-white, color B is purple, color C is blue, color D is green, color E is yellow, color F is orange, and color G is red. Basic Stitch was used for all colors.

Graph for the Riot Wall Hanging crochet pattern by Divine Debris

Begin with a ch 45 in color A, turn, and start in the 2nd ch from the hook. Each row begins with a “ch 1, turn” and all st counts are 44 sc.

Border
Rnd 1: B: Pull up a loop on the other side of color Row 1 of the wall hanging with color B, sc into the next 44 sts, ch 2 at the corner, rotate your piece a quarter turn to the right, sc into the next 8 row ends, change to color C and sc into the next 9 row ends, change to color D and sc into the next 9 row ends, change to color E and sc into the next 9 row ends, change to color F and sc into the next 9 row ends, change to color G and sc into the next 8 row ends, ch 2 at the corner, rotate your piece a quarter turn to the right, sc into the next 44 sts of Row 52, ch 2 at the corner and rotate your piece a quarter turn to the right, sc into the next 8 row ends, change to color F and sc into the next 9 row ends, change to color E and sc into the next 9 row ends, change to color D and sc into the next 9 row ends, change to color C and sc into the next 9 row ends, change to color B and sc into the next 8 row ends, ch 2, join with a slip st into the first st – 192 sc, 4 ch-2 spaces
Rnd 2: B: Turn, slip st into the ch-2 space, ch 1, sc into the ch-2 space, sc into the next 8 sts, change to color C and sc into the next 9 sts, change to color D and sc into the next 9 sts, change to color E and sc into the next 9 sts, change to color F and sc into the next 9 sts, change to color G and sc into the next 8 sts, [sc, ch 2, sc] into the next ch-2 space, sc into the next 44 sts, [sc, ch 2, sc] into the next ch 2 space, sc into the next 8 sts, change to color F and sc into the next 9 sts, change to color E and sc into the next 9 sts, change to color D and sc into the next 9 sts, change to color C and sc into the next 9 sts, change to color B and sc into the next 8 sts, [sc, ch 2, sc] into the next ch-2 space, sc into the next 44 sts, sc into the ch-2 space, ch 2, join with a slip st into the first st – 200, 4 ch-2 spaces
Fasten off colors B – G, switch to color A.
Rnd 3: A: Turn, slip st into the ch-2 space, ch 1, sc into the ch 2 space, *sc across until the ch-2 space, [sc, ch 2, sc] into the ch-2 space,* repeat from * to * 3 more times, sc into the next ch-2 space, ch 2, join with a slip st into the first st – 208 sc, 4 ch-2 spaces
Rnd 4: Turn, slip st into the ch-2 space, ch 1, sc into the ch 2 space, *sc across until the ch-2 space, [sc, ch 2, sc] into the ch-2 space,* repeat from * to * 3 more times, sc into the next ch-2 space, ch 2, join with a slip st into the first st – 216 sc, 4 ch-2 spaces
Feel free to add more rnds if you’d like to make this wall hanging larger.

Fasten off, weave in all your ends. Block your wall hanging so it measures 11.3” x 12”.