You have to stop thinking about it and then you will either find it or remember where it is. Theother day I was trying to find the border fabric for a quilt and I looked and looked and looked. I always put all the extra fabric associated with a quilt together until it is completely done. I could not find any of the fabric so I knew it had to be all together someplace. I looked for two days and then gave up. I was sitting reading and all of a sudden it came to me where it was - it was all in the basket I recently got and thought would be a good place to hold fabric while working on a quilt. Just got to stop thinking about it and it will come.