Thanks, Harriet. I agree with you, looks more like straight piecing to me. But I did copy it. If I don't find one to applique onto the quilt, I'll just use the outline of one and quilt it in the quilting stitches. I have a whale I'm doing that way, and a swimmer too. I found lots of ones for scrapbooking also. I didn't find a paper pieced one in 2 whole shelves of quilt books in the library today. DH thinks I need to put people on the sand. Right...but I'm not an artist, have no way of doing that. He says buy them and glue them on.
Oh, when I tried to do the compass, it was way too many pieces, only a few paper pieced, then 8 sections sewed together. I gave up. When you did your forrest squares that you showed us here, were they done in sections and then sewed together?