This is a lovely book, well written and presented. All the patterns have charts and also written instructions if you don't get on with charts (which I don't). As this is an American book yarn substitutions might be necessary on some of the patterns but all the yarns used are also described in weights as well, which is very handy. The Afghans are beautiful and even the easy ones look very elegant. Would highly recommend this book for anyone wanting to make or looking into making an afghan. Reasonable price as well.