The first quilt I made was one of the stars from this book. It was a queen sized, I think I did the Oregon star. If you know how to paper piece I don't think you really need the CD. My first star took me over 8 hours since I had never paper pieced. BY the time I finished, 64 stars later I could do one in about an hour. I have thought about doing this. Maybe I will join. I was also planning on doing a Dear Jane quilt.