Journal Covers

I have been busy in the sewing room, can you tell? It seems that MagicLady and I use the same style calendar. My calendars take a lot of abuse so I have always made covers for mine. This year I made two and in the process used up 3 orphan quilt blocks. Pretty neat, huh?

There are spaces in the flaps to store business cards and papers and to hold a pen or pencil there is a simple loop of elastic next to the hook and loop tape on the strap. To be able to find your place easily a ribbon is sewn in at the spine. Over the years I have perfected what I want in my cover and long ago decided that I did not like to tie it closed because it was alway coming untied in my purse -- hence the hook and loop tape closure. A button or other geegaw could be added I suppose, but these two were whipped out in under an hour.

You might consider something similar as a gift item.