Gone To The Beach: From the Little Quilt Room : Acorns and Squirrels.

Thursday, November 12, 2026

From the Little Quilt Room : Acorns and Squirrels.

___"In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures." —Cynthia Rylant

Veterans Day is our usual start of Fall here, though this year has been chilly at times. Leaves on our few trees turn red and gold, the sky is often a leaden grey. This week's weather, has been gorgeous, misleading. Today is just quiet autumn rainy day.

These IG posts made me laugh.

For the record it was 60* at 2 PM.

W did have a tornado warning earlier. I was in the shower and missed it; now gale winds are posting instead. This is when the little quilt room comes into its own, my winter refuge. [a tad --not messy but--congested ?] Afternoon sewing hour relocates a bit early this year. (The collected blues are for Blue Schoolhouse someday quilt, the cutaways of Halloween are for a mug rug maybe Log Cabin?)

I have just three more loops to sew on Halley's Comet--will it reappear in the same state in July?

Probably. It has been tucked away in my sewing tray for now.

Sparrows in My Garden quilt progress:

The borders are cut, sparrows are ready to be appliqued. They will be worked on probably tomorrow.

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One of my worst habits, lol, is late night anxiety/loneliness shopping. You may recall how I love to shop. Usually I fill my ''basket'' but don't buy but recently I had a fun evening choosing projects for next fall. My motivation is how fast Sparrows went together! And who doesn't love acorns and squirrels?

I won't link the shop I ordered from, because my post might sound a bit critical and the shop online is lovely.

The big treat: this adorable table runner KIT. I don't think I have ever bought a quilt kit.

I was swayed by the laser cut applique.

The colors are beautifully autumn, but the fabrics given are not at all not my taste or style.

I d never in a million years use printed plaids, esp w gold printing. And eeew, brown.

The appliques are crisp and pre fuseabled. Tiny corners, points--not suitable for machine applique---by me anyway. Way pointier than in the photos. They will need to be hand whipstitched, ugh. Or what? Just fuse and hope?

Teeny tiny squirrel ears? Acorn caps/ Who knows.

Doesn't seem returnable, the pieces kinda fall apart as one opens the tightly packed envelope. $50.oo. It will be stored and ignored, sadly.

Then this darling acorn pinkeep. But--it's huge like a pillow, like 8" x 12". So not in the mood for more resizing after a year of resizing all the Jan P patterns I love. If I hav eto redraw and resize, why buy a pattern; I can draw it myself for free. snark, snark! This was planned to be Christmas gifts anyway--so wrong seasonally.

These inexpensive patterns.

Charming, fun. Have potential, esp the Acorns one. Maybe? Someday?

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Budget lesson learned? $100.oo ish dollars wasted. "Do better, Lizzy!"

Here I was another night---I really want this book, for example. And found darling pop-up books for Christmas gifts. Oh my, pop up books are so expensive. Do kids even like them now? I Pads don't do pop-ups, right?

Meanwhile I switched out the living room table runner for this very pretty festive kantha remnants piece. From now-defunct Christmas Tree Shop on Cape Cod. I love its fall hues, esp the turquoise like my evening sky, below. I'd like to find that color batik for a throw pillow or two.

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Nature bucket list: No November NATURE ? Too bad. It was the nature aspect that interested me, tho a few seem doable. "Family [well just me and ghost of Mo] movie night--we can watch Sense and Sensibility on ? Netflix? I don't have Netflix, but whatever. Stargazing is always good, we may get to the church fair, farmers market, who knows. A tad disappointing. Most of their lists are weird food--a week of salmon, gag!, lots of decluttering. Nope.