Thanks to you all for your help. I've taken quite a few notes to help move forward with this idea. For the way my mind works, I need to work logically towards improving, which means looking at this like a class and the notebook will in a sense be my textbook. I'm going to include a section just for notes. I'm constantly coming along great little tidbits that I want to remember but have no place to keep them. My mind leaks so I need a hard copy.
I ordered prints of my first 3 projects (that's all I've done) so when they are ready I'll get started on this notebook. I bought a heavy duty sketchbook so it will hold up to any pictures or fabric scraps I want to add.
I think the main reason I want to do this is because I feel so helpless while at work on my quilts. What I don't know could fill a ocean. So this notebook will act as my life vest, or at least I hope so.