Went to Houston with DIL to help in her booth a couple years ago---met Elinor Burns there and she signed an old copy of her log cabin book---was very nice---also went to her store in Cal and they were very helpful and you can also call the 800 number in her books and they are very helpful---my first quilt was a king size log cabin---had a few problems and they were great and gave me some very good sujestions