We call 'them' the time guys. They move stuff to clean around, yeah, and don't get it back in time when you go to look for it. You leave to do something else and they sneak it back. That's my story and I'm sticking with it. LOL

I usually find those when I quit looking.

St. Anthony, St. Anthony, please come around.
Something has been lost and can not be found.

Shoot, yeah! Why just the other night I lost some block units I had just sewn (like 15min earlier) and I hadn't even gotten up from the table!

I do that often....not only quilt tops but also other non-quilting things. Most of the times, it's sitting there looking at me saying, "here I am!!!" Other times, it's tucked under something or with other things for the quilt and put away in a VERY safe place. If I ever find the VERY safe place, I'll let you know. LOL

I have several 6x12 rulers since they seem to like to go on vacation -- problem is sometimes they like to go at the same time. I have a couple of shape cutters for the same reason. I just reorganized a closet that has quilting stuff and found a bunch of blocks that I have been looking for for about 5 years. Sigh -- I think I should take a piece of paper and write down all my safe places.

I can totally relate to the strange happenings! I always know when my Dad's spirit is around. Maybe ask her to put them where you can find them....

Sometimes a prayer to St. Anthony helps.

I do this type of thing on a regular basis. I almost am able to locate my misplaced item. I just go to some other project--and the lost item shows up right where I finally recall placing it!

I have done that myself sometimes I have set something on top of it or put it were I would not forget were it was then not been able to find it. Found it when I was not looking for it.
Carol in Delaware

I have been there and done that, it will show up.

I embroidered 12 Redwork blocks that I planned to set on point but since that required some thought and planning, I put these blocks in a zip lock bag and put them somewhere in my sewing room.
Looking for these, caused me to straighten and clean out much of my fabric, etc, and still haven't found them.
I guess they will show up someday.

I did that about 2 years ago. was missing for 10 months. found it on my desk in a Barns and Noble bag, that I thought was a magizine. I had never picked up that bag. when I did, I found missing quilt. What was it doing in that bag??? I will never know! good luck, hope you find it sooner.

:thumbup: that will work!!!

That happens with more frequency than I care to admit...but things eventually turn up! (Usually!)

When you find it, ask it if it has seen my rotary cutter....

I am no stranger to lost items. It seems I'm always looking for something. Don;t give up. Today I found some blocks for a baby quilt I have hunted 2 years. They were under some material in a plastic tote, upstairs. It is a good thing I was curious about making another quilt, or it would still be there. Now if I can find a quilted one ready to be bound I have been hunting for a year. That's pretty big to lose. It is no doubt in a storage box I haven aprehended yet. Keep looking.
Donna Quilts

Check the laundry room

I feel like I have been on a treasure hunt and and am so despondent that I have reached the end of the thread and you have not found the quilt top. Really sounds like my house though. Do you know where the insert for my small pressure cooker is?

You will find it. It is just so weird how that happens. I have misplaced things also. It is so aggravating.

Several years ago I made a quilt top for my mother and I still can't find it. I have completely emptied my sewing room in that time and still no top. She has now passed away and will never get to see it. I make myself so angry!!!!

Love it!!!!!

Happens to me ALL the time...that is usually a reminder for me to stop whatever I am doing and focus on a wider view of my world - a deep breath outside and the feel of grass on my feet helps a lot to remind me who is truly in charge......

My daughter took dance classes when she was a little girl & her 'basic' piece of her costume was a red swimsuit that all the other pieces were attached to....(tutu, can-can skirt, etc). A month before her dance recital we are hunting all over the place for her 'basic' & couldn't find it. We tore the place apart & it didn't show up anywhere. Luckily I was able to find an identical one on a sale rack in another city, so she could still perform in the recital. (We had to buy the basics about 6 months in advance in order to give us time to make all the add-ons.) Well 6 months AFTER her recital we found it stuck in the sleeve of her winter coat. Evidently she carried it home from class that way.....so don't give up looking. It has to be there somewhere. If we didn't do goofy things, we wouldn't be normal & life wouldn't be very interesting.

Did this with a quilt block once. Took it with me to LQS to match sashing. Got home, went to get it, couldn't find it for the life of me. Called shop, nope didn't have it. Gave up and was going to see if I could get more material and make another one. Thought I would check one more time. Finally hit me I had bought another pattern that day and yup I had folded it and put in the envelope so I wouldn't lose it. So it will show up, just on it's terms.

Stop looking for it .... it'll get lonely and come out of hiding :D

yep, put stuff away to get back to then can't find it. somehow though days or weeks later i will look for something else and can't find it but low and behold right there is what i was looking for before. better yet when i put something away where it will safe to find it is so safe i can't find it. did thatlast week with new bank cards. my dh comes home and says his card wouldn't work then i remember i need to give him the new one but couldn't find it anywhere i normally put things for safe keeping then went through the whole house and all the drawers with no luck. i finally gave up on thrusday and had to reorder some.

also was in a panick once and had my son looking and i am looking all over for my glasses a good 20 min. later son is laughing histerically cause i have them on my face where they belonged. i dosed off with them on apparently.

As of yet, I haven't lost a quilt. I hope you find it soon.

I have to share what happened this afternoon... I have some small 9-patch blocks on the design wall and above them is a feathered star block. I saw a quilt on here this afternoon that has a feathered star in the center and other borders added around it so I thought "hmmm maybe I can do something like that with mine". I went in and was doing a bit of measuring while it was still up on the wall. I accidentally brushed one of the 9-patch blocks and it fell... I watched it fall. I reached down to pick it up and it wasn't there. I ended up cleaning off the little table where it fell, looked behind it, put some stuff away and then.... there it was on the floor behind me! Maybe someone was telling me to clean my room?

Have you tried the "if I was putting it away right now, where would I put it?" That has helped me before.
Robin in TX

When you find your quilt top and flip flops, please ask them where my keys are. I have been hunting for them for almost 3 years now! Why do I feel like I need to put things "somewhere safe"...always so safe they never turn up. I'd also like to know where the lone star quilt I was hand piecing when I was pregnant with my middle daughter is hiding. It only needs 3 more diamonds put on for the star to be complete...and my daughter is now 24 :shock: :oops:

I took a class on applique. I had done the center of a small wall hanging. I took it to work to work on it during my break. After break, I put it in my desk drawer. I was busy and forgot about it. The next week, I couldn't find it to take to class. I looked everywhere. I thought I had put it in my desk drawer, but it wasn't there. So I had to make another top and applique. It is still only half done. About 8 or 9 years later, I retired. I was cleaning out my desk. For some reason, I reached behind the back of my desk drawer and there was my quilt top and applique.

May your patience be plentiful. lol.

Let me see...I can't find the 2 metal flower buttons I just bought...the flat flower pins...my sand dots...etc etc. This is a testament to my degree of unorganized, but like you, I "put it up" so I can find it later...sigh.

You will find it when you stop looking :-D

I think you are right. I have inanimate objects that hide from me all the time just to aggravate me. Sometimes I don't know if I've lost my horse or found a rope.

I found it!!! Go to this thread and learn all about it!
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-159410-1.htm
You ladies are so wonderful I can't tell your much enjoyment I have had with this "lost quilt!" Again, thanks so much for your encouragement, wonderful stories, and commiseration!! You are great!!!!! God Bless you All!!

quote=katigirl]May your patience be plentiful. lol.[/quote]

Thank you so much!!![

I find stuff "missing" from my kitchen drawers like that all the time.

Glad you found it!

I took an antique GM Flower Garden trying to match the muslin. I finally found some but NOW I can't find the quilt!! I have been looking for it for 3 years and it still hasn't appeared. They will probably find it when I am dead and buried. So frustrating !!!

Maybe there IS a quilting fairy godmother and when you find it it will quilted and bound ready to use......You don't think so!!! Oh well, daydreaming is better than stressing, lol.