Free Motion Cover

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. Charles Dickens

It certainly was! 

I've been working on a personal project for a few days that I'm not quite ready to share....and the timing is just right to start sharing Cherie's journal because he just got it in the mail today. I'm going to start by celebrating the cover.

In October of 2024 I took a Fabulous Free Motion quilting class with Izzy Moore. I loved it!  One of my favorite lessons was practicing my free motion stitching around the designs on upholstery fabric. 

I did several projects that I was quite proud of including this card...and several of these 4 square pieces that I hope to turn into coasters. I wrote about these stitch doodles here in this post.

I recently found this larger piece I also did as practice....and thought it would make a lovely journal cover. It was just the right size. So that's exactly what I did for Cherie.

Cherie's materials had a bit of a vintage vibe....so gelli prints and handmade papers weren't going to work. But this would....and it became the jumping off point I needed for assembling her joy journal.

Because there was a raw edge around the fabric piece...I had to fuse fabric to the back then wrap it around to the front this time. I prefer to do it the other way around.....but this worked out well enough. In hindsight...I could have done a tradition quilt binding...but didn't think of it at the time.

A slide off and on belly band closure was the way to go....and I did like mixing in a stripe. There are quite a few mixed patterns inside.

This fabric cover...was the perfect pairing with all her vintage vibe clothing tags that you can see peeking out. I'll save the inside for tomorrow. I was pretty tickled with this free motion cover...and I loved using something from my stash.

I dropped off my bag of Maine needs good this morning!

That always feels good! Thanks again for the donations!