My son and daughter both want a mariners compass quilt. You would think with all the patterns I have around here I could find one, but no luck. Any suggestions where to get a pattern that is not too hard to follow? Any help would be great.

Quilters Complete Guide by Fons and Porter

Excellent pattern and assembly instructions! You can get it pretty cheap on ebay.

Here is Tim's compass block that was done as a BOM here on the forum:

http://www.quiltingboard.com/posts/list/1437.page

I found just the pattern on Compuquilt.com

I downloaded my paper pieced pattern from http://www.bearpawproductions.com/ - it was so easy, my DH who doesn't sew did one :lol: You can see mine here: http://www.quiltingboard.com/posts/list/6069.page and DH's here: http://www.quiltingboard.com/posts/list/6146.page

The is a paper pieced mariner's quilt pattern in the April 2007 Fon's and Porter. You can order it from them. I recently did. They called it Island Spice

Carol Doak is my favorite and I am in her yahoo group. I love her foundation pieced patterns and she has a new book called Mariners Compasses.

here is her web site and there are freebies

http://www.caroldoak.com/

just hit the button on top "free patterns"

hope this helps if not pm me and I can help you some more If you need the address for Starr please tell me

I was coming in here to say the same thing...with Carol you can't go wrong and her cd roms are fabulous to watch and learn from....

Of course you can't go wrong with anything Carol Doak does. I love her stuff and it is great for beginning and advanced. I have made many of her blocks in sizes as small as 4 inches, I think the only difference in beginning and advanced foundation piecers is the size of the pieces they deal with and the number of pieces in a block. My Opinion Anyway.

tricia

Can't wait to see the finished quilt. The Mariner's Compass is on my to do list for someday........