I have the book, and was just trying to figure out what I need when I go shopping tomorrow, I thought I wanted to enlarge the blocks to 12 inch, but then you wouldn't want to make them into the star idea would you? wouldn't that make a 24 inch block and pretty big for a quilt? wonder how a 8 or 9 inch block would work, how did you figure the amount to increase it? by the way, count me in gals.