Pictures are clear and in focus. Each motif gets it's own page and photo. The patterns are both written out and charted which is very useful. Has a spiral binding so it lays flat while you are working. Also worth noting that the motifs are all worked in yarns that show stitches well so it is easy to tell what you are looking at. A few drawbacks, the index is terribly incomplete and the motifs often call for a specific stitch maneuver say "popcorn" for example without describing the process. Which wouldn't be a problem if the index actually listed its location, instead you have to go looking through the book to find it. Rather than cataloging all of these in a section for techniques they are interspersed throughout the pages of patterns as "notes" paired with a motif that uses them. Not helpful when the one you want to work doesn't have the instruction and the index doesn't say where it is found. ( )