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I bought the paper edition of this book and immediately joined the Facebook group to be able to interact with others using the book. It turned out that the hexagon patterns in the book were not those being used in the Facebook group. The author mixed them up, using part of one hexagon, part of another hexagon, etc., to make a larger one, and recommended purchasing the paper templates from a company she is closely associated with (!). I ended up trying and not liking the Millefiori pattern she was presenting. Then she had a new Facebook group, Blocks on the Go, which was going to use the hexagons in her book. However, she changed the size, enlarging them, so, again, one could not just use the hexagons as presented in her book, but this time there was an acrylic ruler available, again from the company she is closely associated with, that one could use, and also paper pieces available from this same company for each hexagon, or, of course, draft one's own card stock templates. One of the FB members calculated that she would spend $300 total throughout the year, were she to purchase the paper templates for this project. The author on the Facebook site has also refused to let anyone post any other places where English Paper Piecing templates are available for purchase, saying that the company she promotes is the only one allowed to be mentioned on the site. So here we have an author who has parlayed this book into quite a lucrative business for enthusiastic quilters wanting to make her pretty patterns, and I, for one, feel manipulated. If one just sticks to making the patterns as presented in the book, this could be an inexpensive project.