In 1992, my husband, Rob, and I decided to buy a sailboat. We found one we liked in Miami and drove there from our home in Michigan to buy it and cruise while living aboard.

While cruising in the Bahamas, I began buying cotton fabric. Later, travelling back to Michigan on the Intercoastal Waterway, I continued to collect fabric wherever we stopped. I had packed a sewing machine aboard, and in Morehead City I began to cut and assemble the central compass rose of this quilt.

I was not sure how the rose would fit into the completed quilt because I did not have an overall design. It took me six more years to decide on a final design and complete the other eight compass roses on the front and the two on the back.

The quilt contains fabric from the Bahamas, Canada and a number of Eastern Seaboard states, all collected while cruising aboard our sailboat, Vairagya.

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