{"id":11944,"date":"2012-01-18T06:28:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T13:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=11944"},"modified":"2018-05-24T21:07:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T04:07:37","slug":"purple-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/purple-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Purple<\/a>
Purple Journal Closed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Awhile ago, I decided I wanted to make Julie<\/a> a really special gift for her birthday. I decided on a journal similar to my Red Journal<\/a> as a gift. The date slid as my November and Decembers were pretty busy and it ended up as a Christmas gift.<\/p>\n

She is a purple person, so I decided to make the cover from some of my purple scrap. I had quite a few from the Purple quilt<\/a>, so it wasn’t difficult. However, I got really busy and distracted right before her birthday, so I didn’t finish it. Then December was really busy and I didn’t finish it in time to give it to her for Christmas. I told her about it and promised her it would be done.<\/p>\n

I did work on it over the holidays, but in the course of being distracted, I somehow got off track and started making her a new cover out of the fabric I used for the Stepping Stones<\/a> quilt.<\/p>\n

Huh? I know. Not sure what was happening in my mind, but there you have it.<\/p>\n

\"Purple<\/a>
Purple Journal Signature 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, I stopped working on the cover and turned my attention to the pages. The point is to make signatures (groups of pages). I was going for 12 pages in 2 signatures, which, when folded in half, would give 48 pages total to write or on which to journal.<\/p>\n

I have a small stash of random, scrap paper, which I got out and started sewing together. This process ruins the needle for fabric, so I worked on all the pages I needed. As I worked through this process I decided to make two more journals for other gifts and made the pages for those, too.<\/p>\n

\"Purple<\/a>
Purple Journal Signature 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since my needle was ruined for fabric anyway, why not? I’ll talk more about those journals later.<\/p>\n

You can use any kind of paper, but you shouldn’t use ALL really thick paper. You need to use different weights otherwise it is too hard to bind at the end.<\/p>\n

I sewed the various pieces together to make 8.5″x11″ sheets, which I, then, folded in half. Julie will have to use different pens to write on the different papers as some of the papers are shiny and won’t work with roller ball type pens. It will be interesting to see what she does with it.<\/p>\n

\"Purple<\/a>
Purple Journal Back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have been struggling with what it means to be an art quiltmaker lately (for awhile, actually) and whether I am or not. I think this project puts me firmly in the camp of art quiltmaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Awhile ago, I decided I wanted to make Julie a really special gift for her birthday. I decided on a journal similar to my Red Journal as a gift. The date slid as my November and Decembers were pretty busy and it ended up as a Christmas gift. She is a purple person, so I … Continue reading “Purple Journal”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[401],"tags":[149,128,320,327],"class_list":["post-11944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-401","tag-art-quilts","tag-completed-project","tag-journals","tag-off-topic-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}