{"id":54520,"date":"2021-11-24T06:53:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T14:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=54520"},"modified":"2026-03-08T13:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:16:04","slug":"yellow-journal-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/yellow-journal-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Journal Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_54501\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54501\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211117_194833_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54501\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211117_194833_wm-sm-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow Journal Cover - front\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211117_194833_wm-sm-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211117_194833_wm-sm-768x886.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211117_194833_wm-sm.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 85vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yellow Journal Cover &#8211; front<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I took some of the made fabric I had assembled for the Yellow Improv donation quilt and made a journal cover.<\/p>\n<p>I felt like I was taking away from the donation quilt, but I&#8217;ll be needing a new journal cover soon, so needs must. I figure I have a lot of scraps, so more donation quilts are on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>This one turned out to be just a smidge small, so I had to stretch it to get it on the journal (<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3oVhtLI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miquelrius 6.5 in. x 8 in<\/a>**).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54504\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54504\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211117_194724_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54504\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211117_194724_wm-sm-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow Journal Cover - front and back\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211117_194724_wm-sm-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211117_194724_wm-sm-768x526.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211117_194724_wm-sm.jpg 846w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yellow Journal Cover &#8211; front and back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I kind of used what I had rather than arranged the scraps because I didn&#8217;t think of using the pieces I was working on for a journal cover until I had already made most of the pieces.<\/p>\n<p>I still have quite a few equilateral triangles from the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/finished-flower-sugar-hexagon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flower Sugar Hexagon<\/a> quilt I made a long time ago. I am trying to use them up, but there seems to be a never-ending supply.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54503\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54503\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211117_194801_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54503\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211117_194801_wm-sm-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow Journal Cover - inside front cover\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211117_194801_wm-sm-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211117_194801_wm-sm-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211117_194801_wm-sm.jpg 821w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yellow Journal Cover &#8211; inside front cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am not very enamored with the inside. That corn fabric doesn&#8217;t look great outside of the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/food-quilt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food quilts<\/a>. At least it reminds me of the three food quilts I made and the people who received them.<\/p>\n<p>As I may have mentioned, I have stopped adding fabric to the inside and just let the flannel be the other side of the cover. It makes the project go more quickly and makes the cover flatter.&nbsp; Of course, it doesn&#8217;t use as much fabric.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54502\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54502\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211117_194636_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-54502 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211117_194636_wm-sm-e1637553742375-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow Journal Cover - inside back cover\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211117_194636_wm-sm-e1637553742375-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211117_194636_wm-sm-e1637553742375-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211117_194636_wm-sm-e1637553742375.jpg 865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yellow Journal Cover &#8211; inside back cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I think I have one more Miquelrius journal to use after this one, then I will switch completely to the Leuchtturm journals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>**I use affiliate links and may be paid for your purchase of an item when you click on an item link in my post. There is no additional cost to you for clicking or purchasing items I recommend. I appreciate your clicks and purchases as it helps support this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took some of the made fabric I had assembled for the Yellow Improv donation quilt and made a journal cover. I felt like I was taking away from the donation quilt, but I&#8217;ll be needing a new journal cover soon, so needs must. I figure I have a lot of scraps, so more donation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/yellow-journal-cover\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yellow Journal Cover&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[496],"tags":[128,371,98,561],"class_list":["post-54520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-496","tag-completed-project","tag-improv","tag-journal-cover","tag-small-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54520","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54523,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54520\/revisions\/54523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}