Thank you all sooo much...you really know how to make a gal feel good!!! I guess the fabs make it look so different than the one in the book. It really didn't appeal to me either. I was trying to duplicate the candy cane stripes with the red and white stripe sections. Honestly the pattern was not that challenging. if you can make log cabin you can do this. The directions are harder to understand than actually sewing them., and there is a mistake in the directions, or maybe a typo.