The design of this little bag of flowers is based on several patterns found in a Japanese magazine.

A new little floral bag for little girls!

The handle of the bag is a crocheted cylinder which I filled with kapok (plenty of kapok trees (tropical silk cotton) in our area, I picked the pods when they ripened last year). Kapok is moisture-resistant, quick-drying, resilient, buoyant fibre. Kapok is also supposedly highly flammable and too brittle for spinning.

Great stuff!

Detail of the flowers.

Above photo shows the crocheted flowers in detail and below is the pattern that I used for the flowers. Experiment with colors to produce different effects. A more elegant bag can be created, for example, by using a darker color (such as royal blue) or combinations of colors (for example, gray and dark red).

Use single or different colors for rows 1, 2 and 3 of this pattern.

I assembled the floral motifs together along the 5-ch loop as I crocheted, and made a hexagon shape for the bag. Other shapes may be explored.

Instead of a lining, I sewed together the open edges (the base of the outer petals) of the flowers together.