Japanese Flower Bag - 1

During my many meanderings on the net I found a picture of this bag on the cover of this Japanese Crochet book....

Then I found people had made many versions of it...

I fell in love and just had to make it for myself. So I have now made a start on it. Only 66 flowers to go...

There are blogs that have tutorials for this pattern such as Meladora's Creations and Future Girl Craft Blog project Flower Purse.