Caught off-guard by a new ban on plastic bags in your town like I was? Don’t want to spend a bunch of money on hard-to-wash reusable bags? Got a lot of cotton yarn (dishcloth cotton?) in your stash? Then grab your needles, go stash-diving, and whip out a few of these to keep in your trunk/bicycle basket, etc.

Note: Bag pictured on pattern is holding four 2-liter bottles of soda and could have held more.

4/26/2013: Updated version of pattern uploaded to fix error in last line of Texture Section Two. My apologies!