OK, so I bought the first book, One Block Wonders and was awestruck! The colors and designs were so intriguing and beautiful and I ran out, bought fabric and made several quilt tops. (Caution beginners: There are no instructions for how to add a border, bind, etc. The book just states, "Quilt and bind."). At the time I was a bit annoyed that the book showed cubes in the quilts but did not have the instructions, as I felt it was a bit dishonest, but I was willing to "forgive." Well, loe and behold, some months later, another book appeared: the ENCORE! book. Overally, I don't find the quilts in this book as beautiful or interesting as the first (color- or design-wise) but at least the instructions for cubes are included...but not for ALL the cubes shown in the book. Now I see that the authors have yet another book coming out in the SPring and there, on the cover, is the "missing" cube that she didn't give instructions for in ENCORE!. I won't buy this book (I actually figured out how to construct the missing cube myself) and I'm getting more and more annoyed at her tactics. Bascially, all of this information could have been included in a single book instead of making folks buy 3 of them, with so much redundant information in each. I would offer this advice: look at the designs in the first book for inspiration, and buy the second one (or wait until the spring and buy the third). Once you get the hang of it, you can make up your own patterns using the basic hexagon design.