This is a knitting pattern with directions for my 1Bag grocery shopping bag in three versions.

I encourage knitters to knit at least one cotton grocery bag to replace plastic shopping bags (or paper) in an effort to make a difference to Planet Earth, one bag at a time. The truth is, on each shopping trip one of these knitted bags replaces two or three plastic bags because of "stretch" factor. And yet, after use they go back to their original shape. Made of 100% cotton in a worsted weight yarn they are machine washable and dryable.

Over the lifetime of one cotton knitted bag it is likely to replace 1000 or more wasteful plastic bags. Can you imagine what would happen if 100,000 knitters around the globe each made a cotton bag and used it regularly for five years? All of those bags added together could potentially replace 78,000,000 plastic shopping bags.

The important thing isn't which pattern you choose. The important thing to is make at least one bag.

My primary interest in cotton grocery bags is the good it will do for the planet, and the good that will do for our children, their children, and the children who come along for generations to come.

Knit a bag, use it regularly ... make a difference.

This scrapbook style pattern is 12 pages including full-color cover sheet, personal journal page to record details of your project(s), detailed instructions with color photographs and a diagram showing construction of the bag.