Now , get out your patchwork and have your square done before teatime . '' `` I do NOT like patchwork , '' said Anne dolefully , hunting out her workbasket and sitting down before a little heap of red and white diamonds with a sigh . `` I think some kinds of sewing would be nice ; but there 's no scope for imagination in patchwork . It 's just one little seam after another and you never seem to be getting anywhere . But of course I 'd rather be Anne of Green Gables sewing patchwork than Anne of any other place with nothing to do but play . I wish time went as quick sewing patches as it does when I 'm playing with Diana , though . Oh , we do have such elegant times , Marilla . I have to furnish most of the imagination , but I 'm well able to do that . Diana is simply perfect in every other way . You know that little piece of land across the brook that runs up between our farm and Mr. Barry 's . It belongs to Mr. William Bell , and right in the corner there is a little ring of white birch trees -- the most romantic spot , Marilla . Diana and I have our playhouse there . We call it Idlewild . Is n't that a poetical name ? I assure you it took me some time to think it out . I stayed awake nearly a whole night before I invented it . Then , just as I was dropping off to sleep , it came like an inspiration . Diana was ENRAPTURED when she heard it . We have got our house fixed up elegantly . You must come and see it , Marilla -- wo n't you ?
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