I've read the whole of the section for A and just started on B (about 30 pages) and there is a lot of good information in this book - both for the less knowledgeable and for those whose subject this is but who could do with a quick reference work. There are also useful bibliographical references and the black and white photographs are good.

What is surprising though is the awful typography - yes, this is important because firstly the fonts used for this book don't appear to have the very important Old Norse letter eth - ð - resulting in using eths from another font (which looks absolutely awful) and secondly, all the very important Scandinavian letters like ö and ä are used seemingly at random - sometimes words have them and sometimes they don't. This is not a minor detail: it amounts essentially to misspelling important place names and the like. Whether this is the author's or the publisher's fault I don't know.

Furthermore, anglicization of Scandinavian names and words is bad enough, but even worse when it is done inconsistently, as in this book - some names are given in Old Norse, others in their modern English "equivalents". Very sloppy and strange.

Take this as a warning, if you start this book you can expect to find it hard to read. Time after time I almost put it down but decided to plow on and try to finish. It was written in the early 1920's and I guess the writing style reflects that era but whatever the reason it is hard to get to the good stuff, and make no mistake there are some good explanations of Masonic teachings in this work. Apparently the last chapter was added sometime after World War II and it is by far the most clear and easy to read chapter in the book.

This work probably deserved 2 and 1/2 stars but since there was no such option I rounded up. You will find some good explanations of why Masons use symbols and of the social nature of humans that requires us to bond in such fraternal groups. The reader will also be reminded that the primary teaching of Freemasonry is liberty of the mind. The problem is that your mind will be somewhat numb by the time you find this out.

Again, there are bits of gold to be found it just takes some digging. At times it will seem like this book is eight hundred pages long. This is a book for a true Masonic scholar and is not for everyone.

This book published in 1986 may have been an uptodate methodology at that time, but has since been outdated and in my estimation is not worth the money.

Black and white format. Stitch diagrams reasonably good, though not many different stitches included. Styles of projects included outdated. (May be coming back in to fashion though, as the featured quilt seems to have a "peace sign" as it's main theme.) This book does not really come close to the Victorian crazy quilt books that are currently on the market. For the price, it might not be a bad addition to a library on CQ, but I think I'd pass it up otherwise

This book is a good beginning book for a person wanting to learn to do Crazy Quilting. She shows how to piece the blocks (sew the material down). She has good pictures, and you can see the stitching that has been done on the finished projects.

The projects include a tea cozy, quilt, toaster cover, purse, Christmas stocking, and (among others) a shopping bag.

I got this book as one of the first CQ books in my library, and it was a help to me, even though I had to buy others to expand my knowledge. This is a good book for basics. The pictures are all in black and white, and while it may LOOK outdated, with modern materials, these ideas and techniques are helpful

This is not a good book. The projects are ugly, and nothing one would want to waste time on. I was very disappointed! Fortunately it was not an expensive book - yet, certainly not worth ordering.