Australia has long had a rich embroidery tradition and if you love flowers, you will LOVE the beautiful exotic variety of flowers from down under in this book. Kangaroo Paw! :-) While the flowers I think are the star attraction, there are also designs for many baby and children's blankets including for gingerbread, geese, and teddy bears. I've photographed some of my favorite pages from this book. Please forgive the quality of my photos-- the actual pages of the book are clear and bright. I'm culling my personal collection of sewing books I've bought for ideas but will never have time to start, sadly. Enjoy! Used, former library book, paperback edition. Mild cover-wear, but inside pages are like new. This paperback has nice stiff covers that I wish more paperback books had! Spine is sturdy. Typical stamps and stickers from a library and a thriftbooks sticker, as well. Shipped with a cardboard insert (or inside one) to protect it. (Probably a coating placed by the library.) I think it's more like very good condition, but I tend to under promise and over deliver on the condition of items, preferring you to be pleasantly surprised.