{"id":54984,"date":"2022-01-27T07:18:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T15:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=54984"},"modified":"2026-03-08T13:15:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:15:51","slug":"2022-blue-journal-cover-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/2022-blue-journal-cover-1\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Blue Journal Cover #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_54986\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54986\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220123_190731_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54986\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220123_190731_wm-sm-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"2022 Blue Journal Cover #1 (front)\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220123_190731_wm-sm-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220123_190731_wm-sm-839x1024.jpg 839w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220123_190731_wm-sm-768x937.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220123_190731_wm-sm.jpg 868w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 85vw, 246px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2022 Blue Journal Cover #1 (front)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Saturday turned out to be a kind of topsy turvy day. Once I finally got to the machine, I wasn&#8217;t really up for working on the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/a-place-for-everything-v-2-bag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Place for Everything Bag<\/a>. I felt defeated by it and wanted to just finish something.<\/p>\n<p>I needed some new journal covers&nbsp; and they are relatively easy to make. I found some already &#8216;made fabric&#8217; in my blue scrap bin and stitched up a couple of journal covers.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-54984 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/2022-blue-journal-cover-1\/20220123_190610_wm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220123_190610_wm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"2022 Blue Journal Cover #1 (left inside)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-54992\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-54992'>\n\t\t\t\t2022 Blue Journal Cover #1 (left inside)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/2022-blue-journal-cover-1\/20220122_150233_wm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220122_150233_wm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"2022 Blue Journal Cover #1 (right inside)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-54993\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-54993'>\n\t\t\t\t2022 Blue Journal Cover #1 (right inside)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>It is pretty easy to make these when the fabric is already sewn together, so this one when together really fast. The hard part was dealing with the flannel, which I have been using for the other side instead of regular fabric. I was running out of the yard I have had for awhile and had to piece bits together. After these two I will need to go back to interfacing a regular piece of fabric. Why buy more flannel when I have plenty of fabric?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54987\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54987\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220123_190650_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54987\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220123_190650_wm-sm-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"2022 Blue Journal Cover #1 (back)\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220123_190650_wm-sm-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220123_190650_wm-sm-768x916.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220123_190650_wm-sm.jpg 817w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 85vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2022 Blue Journal Cover #1 (back)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I probably should have used the made fabric for another <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/series-quilts\/color-strip-chunk-donation-tops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blue donation quilt<\/a>. I&#8217;m not really worried, though. There are always more scraps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday turned out to be a kind of topsy turvy day. Once I finally got to the machine, I wasn&#8217;t really up for working on the A Place for Everything Bag. I felt defeated by it and wanted to just finish something. I needed some new journal covers&nbsp; and they are relatively easy to make. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/2022-blue-journal-cover-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2022 Blue Journal Cover #1&#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":[506],"tags":[371,98,561],"class_list":["post-54984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-506","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\/54984","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=54984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54994,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54984\/revisions\/54994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}