{"id":45221,"date":"2019-03-09T07:05:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T14:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=45221"},"modified":"2026-03-08T13:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:16:55","slug":"journal-cover-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/journal-cover-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal Cover Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gerre’s Journal Cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My friend had a birthday yesterday. I have been telling her – well strongly suggesting that writing in a journal would help her work out some issues. Thus, this is my “put your money where your mouth is” gift to her.<\/p>\n

I rummaged through my white scrap bin to make this journal cover. I was going for cheerful and light to counteract the grey weather we have been having. I really tried hard to get that castle fabric (upper left) on the front, but didn’t quite make it.<\/p>\n

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Gerre’s Journal Cover with front cover open<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since I have been making Gerre a few things recently with the ice cream fabric, I wanted to include some in this journal cover as well. I put it on the inside as it didn’t go very well with my light and cheerful look.<\/p>\n

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Gerre’s Journal Cover with back cover open<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I haven’t made a journal cover in a while. The last one was dark blue<\/a> and made in 2017. I have been sing a different kind of journal that doesn’t work with these covers, thus I haven’t needed a new one. I still like these Miquelrius<\/a> journals. They have great paper and ink dries on it quickly. I am just more enamored with the Leuchtturm<\/a> journals at the moment. I like hte rounded edges and the colors. The Leuchtturm journals also fit in my handbag, which is an added bonus.<\/p>\n

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Gerre’s Journal Cover back cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had fun putting this cover together. I used a number of scraps from the EPP half hexie<\/a> project and even some scraps from the City Sampler<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I had a hard time sewing it as there were so many seams along the edge, so I ripped the last seams out a couple of times. It isn’t perfect, but I hope she won’t notice. That edge is tricky.<\/p>\n

I did get a nice compliment from Angela who has used the journal cover tutorial<\/a> to make covers for other types of journals.\u00a0 She said it was her favorite journal cover tutorial. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Gerre’s Journal Cover -whole cover, open and face down<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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