{"id":8303,"date":"2011-03-30T06:42:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T13:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=8303"},"modified":"2016-11-08T23:12:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T06:12:38","slug":"bright-spring-journal-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/bright-spring-journal-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright Spring Journal Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Journal<\/a>
Journal Cover - closed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Perhaps this is more summery than springy?<\/p>\n

Perhaps I should have used more blues and greens and held on to this for summer? Nah! I was ready for some cheerfulness after the unbelievably grey skies of the past few weeks.<\/p>\n

My plan worked. My plan was to alleviate the depressing grey that was shrouding my town. It worked! Today was beautiful out! Blue skies… no clouds. It was gorgeous, even from the window of my office. And, peeking out of my bag was this cheerful (bordering on loud and obnoxious??) journal cover. It made me smile every time I caught sight of it.<\/p>\n

I used the Philip Jacobs fabric I bought at Always Quilting after PIQF 2010<\/a>. I still want to make a bag or something larger, but I haven’t gotten to it yet.<\/p>\n

I didn’t plan on centering the flower, but it was a pleasant surprise.<\/p>\n

\"Journal<\/a>
Journal Cover - open<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I used a bit of hand dyed fabric for the inside and added a little to the edges of Philip Jacobs fabric to add interest.<\/p>\n

I have finished all of the pages my current journal, which has the Innocent Crush cover<\/a>. I am sorry to be finished with that journal, because I wanted to carry it around in the Innocent Crush Flea Market bag<\/a>. Adrianne<\/a> brings her Flea Market bag to the BAMQG<\/a> meetings and I admired it again at the last meeting. I wasn’t happy with the way my bagn turned out so I took it apart – not the whole bag yet, but the straps. You can kind of see the unevenness in the photo (the one I linked to above). I like the fabric and the design and didn’t want to just abandon it. When I made the bag, I was not able to sew the straps smoothly\u00a0 which meant that I tried to ease the handles together, which, further, left tucks in them. I didn’t like the way the tucks looked. I have unsewed the handles and am working on lining them up better. I haven’t done any further sewing on them. We’ll see.<\/p>\n

Yes, I can reuse the Innocent Crush journal cover and I might do that. For now, though, I am loving the cheerful and fun Philip Jacobs cover.<\/p>\n

This is a quick project. I made the journal cover in about a half an hour on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps this is more summery than springy? Perhaps I should have used more blues and greens and held on to this for summer? Nah! I was ready for some cheerfulness after the unbelievably grey skies of the past few weeks. My plan worked. My plan was to alleviate the depressing grey that was shrouding my … Continue reading “Bright Spring Journal Cover”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[400],"tags":[128,98,320,86],"class_list":["post-8303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-400","tag-completed-project","tag-journal-cover","tag-journals","tag-off-topic-crafts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303","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=8303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}