I suffer this affliction myself! In fact, I have a very dear friend who claims to be worse! So we call each other when something like this happens and help retrace steps over the phone. She thinks it is funny because I always end up asking, "did you check the freezer?" just because I actually found something I was looking for in the freezer once (not quilting related though!) If the object can't be found, I blame it on my cats and she blames it on pixies!