Yes willferg, I do have the book. It only shows light fabric/dark fabric combos. I had been thinking of doing this type first:
https://www.google.com/search?q=shak...l%3B1022%3B843 the pink and green one using my blues and purples but it is so hard to find enough light batiks to use for the "light" parts. Plus, I've done some intricate layouts before but this looks like it would be very challenging to make each block correctly (the lady that made this somewhere discussed that she did in fact have to use the seam ripper many, many times making this quilt to get the colors in the right positions).