I got that calendar and am happy with it. The three that seem the same are all a little different. Maybe you would only want to make a smaller size-that blooming 9 patch is not an easy pattern to keep straight. I agree it seems a little sneaky that you actually get only 9 different patterns but I still like the calendar. How about the box you can get that say 365 different quilt blocks, a lot of them are variations of the same block. What I really hate is when I buy a quilt calendar and there are no patterns and I didn't read close enough to see that--did that only once. Still I used it for ideas.