Whether you’re using the journal for literary pursuits or for recording your quilting endeavors, those with quilted covers (and backs) are lovely.  You can use them yourself or give as gifts.
Heather, at A Creative Journal, has written an informative post, Making Your Own Journal Covers.  She gives close to a dozen resources where you’ll find tutorials and information about materials to use.
One I found particularly interesting  is How to Crazy Quilt which Heather found at DIYnamite: let’s create.
                                          
(And thanks, Heather, for giving me credit for inspiring you to write about journal covers!)

Heather Goldsmith, at A Creative Journal, alerted me to a new magazine, Artful Blogging, published by Stampington & Company that combines blogging and the art world.  Blogging has become THE method to get word out there about what you’re doing.
So we’re finding that quilters, fabric artists, and quilting writers, along with others in the arts and crafts world are joining in.  If you don’t, it appears you’ll be left behind.