{"id":55030,"date":"2022-02-01T07:37:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T15:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=55030"},"modified":"2026-03-08T13:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:15:21","slug":"blue-journal-2-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/blue-journal-2-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Journal #2 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheesh! February already! January is never long enough for me.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55027\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55027\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220124_124001_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55027\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220124_124001_wm-sm-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"2022 Blue Journal Cover #2 (front)\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220124_124001_wm-sm-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220124_124001_wm-sm-768x947.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220124_124001_wm-sm.jpg 822w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 85vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2022 Blue Journal Cover #2 (front)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the second journal cover I made the other day when I just needed to sew.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the details are the same as for <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/2022-blue-journal-cover-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 Blue Journal Cover #1<\/a>. Most of the fabric was already made. I had to piece the flannel, but in this case, I used batting tape to keep the pieces together. Yes, that is an unorthodox trick that I haven&#8217;t tried before, but seemed to work ok. The older journals (this one is from 2005) won&#8217;t get much use until long after I am dead, so I am not to worried about the batting tape failing.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-55030 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\/20220124_124137_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220124_124137_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"2022 Blue Journal Cover #2 (inside front cover)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-55029\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-55029'>\n\t\t\t\t2022 Blue Journal Cover #2 (inside front cover)\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\/20220124_124040_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220124_124040_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"2022 Blue Journal Cover #2 (inside back cover)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-55028\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-55028'>\n\t\t\t\t2022 Blue Journal Cover #2 (inside back cover\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheesh! February already! January is never long enough for me. This is the second journal cover I made the other day when I just needed to sew. Most of the details are the same as for 2022 Blue Journal Cover #1. Most of the fabric was already made. I had to piece the flannel, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/blue-journal-2-2022\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blue Journal #2 2022&#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":[128,98,320,561],"class_list":["post-55030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-506","tag-completed-project","tag-journal-cover","tag-journals","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\/55030","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=55030"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55034,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55030\/revisions\/55034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}