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Reach for the Stars - Second Edition
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The second edition contains all of the great instructions found in the original book PLUS a CD for your printing convenience. Become a mariner's compass expert with Brenda's spot-on instructions. The new CD includes:
  • 48 full-size compass patterns
  • 10 compass halos
  • 10 small compass patterns
  • 7 spectacular projects
Techniques: paper piecing
7 projects, 48 pgs.
Item no. 46145

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Mariner Compass Quilts - Reach for the Stars is written by Brenda Hennings, a quilt designer known for her graphic quilts, colorful stained glass designs, and years of experience as a quilting instructor and author. What I like best about this book and CD combination is the author’s sampler quilt approach; included are forty-eight 16” and ten 8” printable foundation compass designs. These diverse compass designs can be enlarged with additions to them and intermixed in one of the seven attractive setting designs.

The Introduction covers fabric selection, preparation and cutting, and foundation preparation and paper piecing. Useful hints for paper removal, curved piecing, appliqué, seam ripping, and pressing are provided. The balance of the book covers printing instructions for compass paper piecing foundations and how to use the compasses in one of the seven amazing settings. Most of the settings include half-square triangles (HSTs); their points complement the spikiness of the Mariner Compass. Since the author is also the designer of Triangulations™, a software program which print grids for sewing half-square triangles (HSTs), instructions are given for using both Triangulations™ and traditional HST construction.

I look forward to making a sampler quilt with a few of the compasses in Mariner Compass Quilts - Reach for the Stars. The challenge will be making a selection from the large number of stunning compass designs!