This book was published in 1986 and the information has not changed with time.  If you want to learn to do all those beautiful stitches then this is the book to use.  There are over 700 unique full color step by step photos.  This is very important to have the step by step photos as these stitches can be very confusing.  I had checked this book out of the library and I had to own one so I went to E-Bay and found a copy.  I want to make a Crazy Quilt and you need to know how to do all of the fancy stitches.  If you are doing a stitchery project these are so helpful to understand the stitch and the diagrams in the kits are not always useful.    I hope that you have found this useful.