{"id":3015,"date":"2009-09-15T06:23:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T13:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/journal-covers-from-exuberant-color-blog\/"},"modified":"2016-11-04T11:02:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T18:02:46","slug":"journal-covers-from-exuberant-color-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/journal-covers-from-exuberant-color-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal Covers from Exuberant Color Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I found my way to the <a href=\"http:\/\/exuberantcolor.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Exuberant Color blog<\/a> and found this <a href=\"http:\/\/exuberantcolor.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/patchwork-journal-cover-tutorial.html\" target=\"_blank\">wonderful tutorial<\/a> for making journal covers. Since I seem to be making small things now, this project appealed to me for a variety of reasons.<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>I carry a journal with me and a cover would make it more private.<\/li>\n<li>I have friends that use journals, so this would make a great gift.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, it is small and looks like it would be  a quick project, which I could use to try new fabric combinations or techniques.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<table style=\"border: 4px solid #e5e5e5; margin: 12px 0px; background: #ffffff none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: arial; color: #333333; width: 100%; clear: left;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"CM_CTB_Content_Wrap\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee; background-image: url(http:\/\/clipmarks.com\/images\/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a title=\"clipmarks' clip-to-blog\" href=\"http:\/\/clipmarks.com\/clip-to-blog\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/content.clipmarks.com\/blog_icon\/98107bc8-83fb-43e8-b348-2fce030a69d4\/63FEA611-34FB-46FA-9870-714AFE7ED597\/\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"19\" height=\"19\" \/><\/a>clipped from <a style=\"font-size: 11px;\" title=\"http:\/\/exuberantcolor.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/patchwork-journal-cover-tutorial.html\" href=\"http:\/\/exuberantcolor.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/patchwork-journal-cover-tutorial.html\">exuberantcolor.blogspot.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><!-- CLIPPED FROM: http:\/\/exuberantcolor.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/patchwork-journal-cover-tutorial.html --><\/p>\n<div id=\"Header1\" class=\"widget Header\">\n<div id=\"header-inner\">\n<div class=\"titlewrapper\">\n<div style=\"margin: 4px 0px; color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/exuberantcolor.blogspot.com\/\">Exuberant Color<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"descriptionwrapper\">\n<p class=\"description\"><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee; background-image: url(http:\/\/clipmarks.com\/images\/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a title=\"clipmarks' clip-to-blog\" href=\"http:\/\/clipmarks.com\/clip-to-blog\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/content9.clipmarks.com\/images\/clip-icon.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"19\" height=\"19\" \/><\/a>clipped from <a style=\"font-size: 11px;\" title=\"http:\/\/exuberantcolor.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/patchwork-journal-cover-tutorial.html\" href=\"http:\/\/exuberantcolor.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/patchwork-journal-cover-tutorial.html\">exuberantcolor.blogspot.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><!-- CLIPPED FROM: http:\/\/exuberantcolor.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/patchwork-journal-cover-tutorial.html --><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/exuberantcolor.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/patchwork-journal-cover-tutorial.html\">Patchwork journal cover tutorial<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><!-- CLIPPED FROM: http:\/\/exuberantcolor.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/patchwork-journal-cover-tutorial.html --><span>Start with a piece large enough to cover the notebook plus flaps at each end to fold in. This is approximately 3\/4&#8243; -1&#8243; taller than the notebook one way and the measurement around the notebook plus flaps that cover at least 3\/4 of the cover on the inside in the other direction.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><!-- CLIPPED FROM: http:\/\/exuberantcolor.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/patchwork-journal-cover-tutorial.html --><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/content6.clipmarks.com\/blog_cache\/exuberantcolor.blogspot.com\/img\/85AFE88A-8F8D-47AA-B030-EC3EF1228585\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><!-- CLIPPED FROM: http:\/\/exuberantcolor.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/patchwork-journal-cover-tutorial.html --><span>Iron on a piece of fusible fleece or batting the height of the notebook by the measurement around the outside of the closed notebook plus.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><!-- CLIPPED FROM: http:\/\/exuberantcolor.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/patchwork-journal-cover-tutorial.html --><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/content7.clipmarks.com\/blog_cache\/exuberantcolor.blogspot.com\/img\/4083618A-02F4-4FBD-8BE4-1CF4C6FC1C58\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;\">\n<table style=\"font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; width: 107px;\" width=\"107\" align=\"right\"><a title=\"blog or email this clip\" href=\"http:\/\/clipmarks.com\/share\/63FEA611-34FB-46FA-9870-714AFE7ED597\/blog\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/content8.clipmarks.com\/images\/c2b-foot.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog it\" width=\"107\" height=\"17\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>We spoke about a Recycled Round Robin at CQFA, where we bring materials from our stashes and put them together using a piece from other quiltmakers as a starting point. I thought this would make a good result for such a project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found my way to the Exuberant Color blog and found this wonderful tutorial for making journal covers. Since I seem to be making small things now, this project appealed to me for a variety of reasons. I carry a journal with me and a cover would make it more private. I have friends that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/journal-covers-from-exuberant-color-blog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Journal Covers from Exuberant Color Blog&#8221;<\/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":[389],"tags":[98,86,330],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","tag-journal-cover","tag-off-topic-crafts","tag-other-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","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=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}