Dumpster Fire Wall Hanging Free Crochet Pattern

Learn to make the Dumpster Fire Wall Hanging pattern from a free crochet graph by Divine Debris. Very customizable, colorful, and exciting to make.

Hi there!
How’s your year going so far? I know it’s only been about a week but, ya know, ya gotta ask and check in on people. Speaking of how the world is right now, this week’s new pattern is the Dumpster Fire Wall Hanging. Want other graph ideas? Check out the More Dumpster Fire Wall Hangings post here.

I know many people are familiar with the image of a dumpster fire. It’s been an image or a meme for years now. We all know it, it’s like a short hand and a great answer for that tough question people ask “hey, how’s it going?” It’s a dumpster on fire. No need to elaborate, ya know? And I have wanted to make a wall hanging for years. It’s just an image I really get and wanted to make in yarn. That’s why I couldn’t decide and made some other graphs, there are just so many things I want to say. But luckily you can customize this look with your own words if you won’t want to use mine.

Like nearly all my other wall hanging patterns, the Dumpster Fire Wall Hanging is worked from the bottom up in rows of single crochet stitches. Using Stitch Fiddle I designed this pattern as a tapestry/ intarsia project for people to customize as you’d like with colors in your stash. While I worked mine, I used a combination of techniques – I used separate skeins of color for the individual sections of color on the bottom (picking them up and dropping them down the WS when not in use) and then used floats on the letters at the top. I preferred to use bobbins because the spaces were small enough I could just use floats. If you decide use bobbin’s for color work like this, be sure to work back and forth and not in a circle to try to keep the yarn from getting too tangled – here’s a video on Instagram showing what I mean.

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 😀 Just remember as you change your pick of stitch, it will kinda distort the image a bit.

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.

I have wanted to make this design for a while. I love how it turned out and I can’t wait make more. I kinda want to do something else in this family one of these days (lets see if that happens, ya know?). But I had a lot of fun making this design and I’m glad so many people have liked it. If you do, please let me know in the comments or tag me on social media if you post a photo.

Do not make videos from my pattern, you don’t have permission even if this pattern is free.

Please note: I was provided the yarn for this pattern by Lion Brand Yarn for the purposes of designing other patterns but I used the left over to make the Dumpster Fire Wall Hanging pattern, without compensation. I wasn’t provided the yarn with the expectations of positive or negative reviews but both yarns are fantastic worsted weight yarns to have in my stash.
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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 Dumpster Fire Wall Hanging crochet pattern

[image description] Top down look at an unfinished Dumpster Fire Wall Hanging on a white background with skeins of yarn in the top of the photo and a white woman's hand holding the bottom left corner.

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
- 11 colors
- Amounts listed in the Notes section below
- Stash yarn was used for this pattern
Notions: scissors, measuring tape, yarn needle
Wooden dowel larger than 16″ across

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. Check out More Dumpster Fire Wall Hanging graphs here.
Begin with a ch 74 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 73 sc for the graphed portion.
The odd rows are the RS.
This pattern is worked from the bottom up, row by row with a turn at the beginning of the rows. Finally, after blocking, you sew it to a stick and add any finishing touches you’d like such as surface crochet or fringe.
The ch 1 at the beginning of the rows does not count as a stitch.
I worked this design using bobbins/ intarsia and floats (as you can see on my Instagram profile). Feel free to adjust as you’d like to work this design.
Blocking is suggested for this pattern.
In the photos: Color A is light brown (.53 oz/ 34 yds), color B is dark brown (.24 oz/ 15.3 yds), color C is tan (.05 oz/ 3.12 yds), color D is black (.4 oz/ 25.5 yds), color E is teal (.9 oz/ 57 yds), color F is red (.24 oz/ 15.3 yds), color G is white (.4 oz/ 25.5 yds), color H is light gray (3.3 oz/ 210 yds), color I is dark gray (.04 oz/ 2.6 yds), color J is orange (.14 oz/ 8.9 yds), and color K is yellow (.19 oz/ 12 yds). I used stash yarn for this design (mainly Pound of Love by Lion Brand Yarn and Brava Worsted by We Crochet for this design)

Blocked Dumpster Fire Wall Hanging Crochet Pattern Finished Product Details (does not include stick, hanging, or fringe)

Height	Width
17.5″	16”

[Image description] The I Tried Dumpster Fire Wall Hanging hangs on a white wall.

Dumpster Fire Wall Hanging Crochet Pattern Graph

Key: Color A is light brown, color B is dark brown, color C is tan, color D is black, color E is teal, color F is red, color G is white, color H is light gray, color I is dark gray, color J is orange, and color K is yellow. If you’d like written instructions for this pattern you can find them here in my Ravelry shop.

Graph the Dumpster Fire Wall Hanging by Divine Debris

Begin with a ch 74 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 73 sc. Looking for written instructions? Buy them here.

Fasten off, weave in all your ends. Block if necessary.

Top/ Hanging
With color H (or any color you’d like), sc or sew your wooden dowel or stick to your wall hanging.
For the hanger, ch 100 with color H (or any color you’d like) and tie the ends to the first and last sts on the final row of the wall hanging.