I don't know why the picture is flipped on its side. I can't see how to fix it using the phone app.
Anyhow...
It's made with more mill end cotton I had left over from another project, and a 5mm hook. The main panel was started with 40 foundation single crochet stitches, then one row of sc. After that, I did linen stitch for a total of 75 rows.
My intention had been to make 3 pocket panels done the same way as the back panel. The smallest one, at 20 rows. Row 19 was done in contrasting white, then the last row in green in sc only. I had just dropped the green strand when adding the white, so the last 2 rows are working in the same direction.
The second panel was done the same way, except for 25 rows instead of 20.
I had intended to make a larger panel for the last pocket, but realized I did not have enough yarn. I decided to fold up the bottom of the back panel insert, so I added a contrasting row of slip stitch in white, on the "back" of the bottom edge.
The smallest pocket panel was sewn on at the bottom only, with the top lined up a few rows from the top of the back panel. The second pocket panel was sewn along the bottom only, with the top lined up to just barely overlap the first pocket panel's sewn in base
Then the back panel was folded up to form the third pocket. Starting from the newly formed bottom corner, I used sc to join the edges along one side, working through three layers where the bottom pocket overlapped the middle pocket, all the way to the top, then kept going around the top and second side. It was a bit of a challenge to keep all the rows lined uo, since I hadn't pinned anything in place.
After the three sides where edged in sc, I finished off the yarn, then went hunting. I wanted a rod of some kind to add to the top. I couldn't find anything appropriate, so I used a white coated wire hangar. That was attached by laying the bottom of the hanger, upside down, behind the top row of the back panel. I joined a new strand at one corner and worked a row of sc, encasing the hanger wire in the stitches. At then end, I turned the corner and kept going down the side, across the folded bottom, back up the other side, then across the top, working into the stitches around the wire, to make a second row of sc across the hanger before tying it off.
Once that was done, I felt the middle pocket top edge was too floppy, so I sewed a few stitches at the middle to secure it and make it into a pair of smaller pockets.
I'm rather pleased with the experiment. Ideally, there would be a rod at the base to stabilize it a bit, but I don't have anything suitable to use. I think it will still work fine.
The linen stitch makes for a softer, more flexible fabric. It could easily be made sturdier by doing it all in just sc. That woukd have used up my yarn a lot faster, though. I think the nect time I get some cheap mill end cotton again, I'll try it that way, next.
