Essential Oil Roller Pouch for 3 Rollers | Free Sewing Pattern

Looking for a way to carry your favourite rollers around with you? Here’s how to sew an essential oil roller pouch for 3 rollers.

You may have just checked out my post on how to sew an essential oil roller pouch for 4 rollers. I gave most of those away to friends who carry a lot of rollers with them.

Personally, I only carry 3 rollers. Could I carry 4? Probably but I try to limit the number of things I carry around. Less than 3 was not enough. So I redesigned the essential oil roller pouch to hold 3 rollers.

This pouch is basically the same – it’s just narrower. If you liked my pouch for 4 rollers, you’ll also like this pouch for 3 rollers. The best thing: I did all the math for you! You don’t need to figure out how to make it narrower.

I use 10ml rollers, however, I do find that they are not all exactly the same. Partway through I will ask you to check the sizing to make sure that this works for the rollers that you have.

Types of Fabrics to use For an Essential Oil Roller Pouch for 3 Rollers

I tried a variety of woven fabrics that all worked quite nicely. They include:

Quilting Cotton – you can always find such beautiful patterns in these.
Flannel – this works especially nice for the lining as it almost acts as a nice cushion for the rollers.
Canvas – this is thicker, sturdier cotton which is sometimes used in home decor. This makes a nice option due to the fact that it is a little thicker and stronger than quilting cotton. In fact, in one of my test pieces, I even used a canvas tarp from the dollar store that is intended to be a drop cloth for painting!
Linen – I had some scraps lying around. This also makes a lovely pouch.

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Other Supplies Needed

In addition to your fabric, you will need the following:

sewing machine
sewing notions: scissors, pins or clips, thread, point turner, fabric chalk/marker, clear quilting ruler
interfacing – I use Pellon SF101
optional: fusible fleece. This adds more cushioning but makes it a little puffier. Depending on the type of fabric you are using, you may not want the extra bulk. However, thinner, more lightweight fabrics like quilting cotton work nicely with a bit of fusible fleece.
iron and ironing board

Cut your Fabric

Here are the pieces you need to cut in order to sew an essential oil roller pouch. All measurements are in inches.

Exterior: 9.5 x 4.5
Lining: 9.5 x 4.5
Roller Pocket: 5.75 x 7
Strap: 5.5 x 2.5

As mentioned, this is a great project to use up scraps.

Cut and Apply Your Interfacing

Each of the above fabric pieces needs interfacing. The Pellon SF101 instructions say to cut everything 1/8 of an inch smaller. I personally don’t know how crucial this is, but I do it, most of the time, that is. You’ll see that my pieces are smaller, but probably more than 1/8 of an inch as I tend to just eyeball it.

You will need to cut interfacing for each of the pieces as follows:

Exterior – whole piece
Interior – whole piece
Roller Pocket – you only need interface half of it: 5.75 x 3.5
Strap: whole piece

You could get away without interfacing depending on how structured your fabric is. I know that I don’t always have it on hand.

For the roller pocket, fold the fabric in half first and press. You will be folding the shorter side. When folded, it should measure 5.75 x 3.5. Apply interfacing to only half of the fabric.

For the strap, place the interfacing in the very centre as shown.

Be sure to apply the interfacing based on the instructions of the brand you have.

How to Sew and Essential Oil Roller Pouch for 3 rollers

I use a 1/4 inch seam allowance for everything unless otherwise indicated.

Start with the pocket piece. Fold it in half with the wrong sides facing and press so that it measures 5.75 x 3.5.

To mark the 3 pockets, measure 2 inches from each outer edge. This will create a centre section of 10.7.5 inches and side sections of 2 inches. The outside sections are a bit wider to take the 1/4 inch seam allowance into account.

So you should have 2 marked lines on the pocket piece.

Now mark the lining piece. Measure 1 5/8 inches from each other edge.

Sorry for the awkward measurement. I found that 1 3/4 was a bit too big and 1 1/2 a bit too small.

Again, you should have 2 marked lines on the lining piece.

Place the pocket piece on top of the lining piece, align the lines of both pieces (the pocket and lining) of both. Sew along this line, attaching the pocket to the lining. Be sure to backstitch at the top of the pocket. This is where there may be a bit of stress as you take the rollers in and out. Do this for both drawn lines.

You will notice that you have now created the centre pocket.

Align the cut edges and edge stitch. This just tacks them down. You’ll want to sew close to the edge as later we will be sewing a 1/4 inch seam allowance and you’ll want this to be hidden.

You now have 3 pockets. The outer 2 pockets will be slightly larger as we haven’t sewn the 1/4 inch seam allowance yet- you just have the edge stitching. Now is a good time to test it out. Put your roller bottles in and see how it fits. Make any adjustments as necessary. As mentioned, not all rollers are the same.

Pleat the bottoms and clip. I like to do them around the centre of each pocket.

Edgestitch along the bottom. Again, make sure it is close to the edge so that it’ll be hidden when we sew the whole thing together.

Next, you will make the strap. Fold the strap piece in half, right sides together. Press and sew along the long edge.

Turn the strap right side out. This can be a little fiddly. Give it a good press so that the seam is in the centre. This will be the back or underside.

Decide where you want the strap. I placed mine 2 inches from the bottom. Be sure to not cover the top edge of the pocket as it may interfere with getting your rollers in and out. Once you are happy with the placement, pin or clip in place. Optional: edge stitch the strap down to secure it.

Put the exterior piece on top of the lining piece, right sides together. Make sure those pockets and the strap are all tucked in. Pin or clip all the way around.

Sew all the way around (1/4 inch seam allowance), leaving a 2 inch opening for turning.

Clip the corners to reduce bulk.

Turn right side out and press.

Topstitch all the way around. This creates a nice finish and closes up that opening you had to turn. Be careful at certain points where it is rather thick – namely where the strap is and the bottom pleats. I had to go very slowly there. Over the strap, I just manually turned the wheel for each stitch.

There you go! Now you have a nice little essential oil roller pouch for 3 rollers.

Looking to sew an essential oil roller pouch for 4 rollers? The concept is the same. I’ve done all the measurements for you. Check out that post here.