{"id":26952,"date":"2015-02-24T05:51:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T12:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=26952"},"modified":"2016-11-04T02:19:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T09:19:52","slug":"ocean-going-journal-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/ocean-going-journal-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Going Journal Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"By<\/a>
By The Sea by Michael Miller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I bought this fabric at the BAMQG Retreat last year. I really bought it off Amazon, but Cheryl and I were comparing notes on the Michael Miller Portfolio series. When I saw this fabric, I needed it. It is By The Sea by Gillian Fullard\/ London Portfolio Series by Michael Miller. I have a number of these fabrics and something about them is very appealing.<\/p>\n

The colors are mine that motifs are such that I won’t get bored carrying the journal around for a long time. They key was to fussy cut some of the cool motifs without taking a big hole out of the middle of the fabric.<\/p>\n

\"Front<\/a>
Front cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I decided to make a fast journal cover this time. I started some mosaic piecing, but remembered how unhappy I was with the Mermaid Tail Journal Cover<\/a> and decided to use one piece of this fabric, which was washed, but had been sitting around for awhile.<\/p>\n

One end had a good piece with some interesting motifs. I thought I would make it so the school of fish was on the front cover.<\/p>\n

\"Inside<\/a>
Inside front cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sadly, that did not work out that well. The fish ended up on the inside of the journal. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

I forgot about the cover pocket. I forgot that the something had to hold on to the journal’s covers to keep the cover on. It is not a disaster, but it doesn’t make the cover very interesting.<\/p>\n

Now I have to decide what to do. I could just live with it like it is, but the front cover is boring.<\/p>\n

I could remake the cover so that motifs were where I wanted them. Not gonna happen.<\/p>\n

\"Lobster<\/a>
Lobster (??) back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I am seriously thinking about turning the cover around putting the lobster (??- is that a lobster??) on the front cover. That means he would have his head at the bottom. Can I stand his beady little eyes watching me all the time?<\/p>\n

The shell would be upside down, the school of fish would be upside down and the blue crab would be on the inside front cover.<\/p>\n

Regardless, I like the fabric and am glad to already have a journal cover ready to go. There is potential for a couple more journal covers out of the same fabric, but with different motifs highlighted.<\/p>\n

\"Blue<\/a>
Blue Crab – inside back cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bought this fabric at the BAMQG Retreat last year. I really bought it off Amazon, but Cheryl and I were comparing notes on the Michael Miller Portfolio series. When I saw this fabric, I needed it. It is By The Sea by Gillian Fullard\/ London Portfolio Series by Michael Miller. I have a number … Continue reading “Ocean Going Journal Cover”<\/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":[379],"tags":[98,320,86],"class_list":["post-26952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-379","tag-journal-cover","tag-journals","tag-off-topic-crafts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26952","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=26952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}