This is a beautiful book. They put a lot of work not just in the shawls but in the pictures that show off the works. The instructions are well laid out and easy to follow. My problem is with the patterns themselves. I never thought i would need to work about sizing on a shawl, but this book may have proved me wrong. So many of the works, while beautiful are short. They don’t have the long fall i expect from a shawl that. For example the mermaid style shawl. It’s beautiful, but I don’t thing based on the pattern I would ever be able to wrap it around myself. I may be wrong, but that is my impression. A beautiful book, but not one this knitter would buy.