I agree with Zhillslady that Gremlins live in our fabric room. Sometimes they invade my car, my bedroom and kitchen too. Doggone little buggers. Things usually reappear, so good luck. I know the feeling of frustration.

DH is Catholic so I know about St. Anthony. I have asked St. Anthony so many times to find things for me, I think I'm on his back burner by now. Still haven't found them but I got busy sewing a UFO and got over the urge to start the new quilt. They will turn up somewhere sometime and I hope I remember they were lost when I do see them again. LOL

That happened to me looked all over for a small bag of fabric I bought. I seen the bag but for some stupid reason it didnt dawn on me that it was right in front of me, call me blind or stupid or both, but I finally looked in the bag so my search was over. I hate it when that happens.

I get Hubby "Eagle Eye" to find it for me. It gets hard when he never saw it in the first place and I have to describe what I'm looking for, lol!

I purchased fabric for a wall hanging. When I got home I put fabric and pattern in my sewing room, in plain sight. I went in the next morning to start cutting and sewing and the darn stuff was not in sight anywhere. That was two weeks ago and I still haven't found them. Can anyone say ghost?

they probably eloped with my 2 1/2" square - cut with it, put it down, gone.

Maybe it didn't make it to the sewing room after all! Still in the car? Did you combine the package with another? Look on top of the washer. Could be your looking for the wrong color package. Of course you'll remember where you put it or it'll show up. Let us know when you find it and where it was!

lol, Linda, my first thought when reading this thread is, "A ghost took it!"

Ditto.. and when I do finally see it (right in front of my face) I want to just kick myself!

Well, all I can say is that they are in a safe place and been there - done that. I do this all the time, and especially when I'm trying to organize my sewing place I lose a lot of things in that new "easy to find" spot I picked out. See - safe place.

Too funny! When I missplace something, I tell my DH and and alway's finds what I need.

Very often I find something has slid down behind wherever I put it. Especially easy with something flat like a ruler or book. If you haven't tried that yet, give it a shot.

My 12 1/2 sq ruler. Searched for a year. It was under a box of magazines the whole time. Can't remember how many times I moved that box. If only I had lifted that box, I would have found it sooner.

I can relate to every post. I have wasted years (and I am not exaggerating) looking for things My little grandson told me years ago, "Grandma,just think backwards in your mind!" I now have an angel whose assignment is to help me find my lost things!!!!

I'm sure it's hiding out with all of my things that disappear whenever I turn my back!

.guess we just have to keep proving that we are human!

.guess we just have to keep proving that we are human!

Look in the fabric stash you are planning on using for the project it is easy to fold fabric with a ruler inside. I have lost so much time looking so I got smart and decided I would always return my rulers where they are supposed to be. NO more lost time.
Hope you find them.

Look in the fabric stash you are planning on using for the project it is easy to fold fabric with a ruler inside. I have lost so much time looking so I got smart and decided I would always return my rulers where they are supposed to be. NO more lost time.
Hope you find them.

Maybe your book and rulers are with the manual to my Singer XL 3400 Quantum!!!

I think it happens to all of us at some point in time. I bought a few panels a few months ago. When I looked for them to plan on what to do with them I could not find them anywhere. I finally decided I really hadn't bought them just thought I did because I liked them but really didn't NEED them. A friend bought me another set while on a shopping trip togather and barely a day later, guess what I found?

look next to your chair -this is where I found my last lost item

I know the feeling...I bought about 10 1/4 yard pieces of fabric about a year ago...I remember bringing the bag into the house and sitting it in a chair in the living room. When I went to get it, it wasn't there. I have been looking for it ever since. Even checked with the store I bought it from to see if I left it there. They said no. Finally resolved that it is not to be found. ?????

I've done that and finally found it when I cleaned the room up.

Done it too. Right now I am missing my 9.5 inch square ruler.

Deep cleaning...isn't that illegal??? :-)

I find that I'm doing that with words lately. I'll read a sentence and my mind just sort of fills in the spaces and when it dawns on me that it doesn't make any sense I go back and re-read and it's not even close to what I thought it said. :roll:

Haven't found them yet? Still don't know where the pillows are, either.

At 5pm DH says, "I think I locked my keys in the garage."

"Ya look in the truck?" says I.

"They're not in the truck!" says he.

Says he at 6pm, after touring the garage, "I can't find my keys, did I leave them in here?" We don't see the keys. I don't mention truck.

7pm, DH leaves watching the TV news, goes outside, comes back,
"They were in the truck--I put the ignition key in to shut the windows."

And so it goes around the world and back again.

have you found your book and ruler yet?

[quote=OmaForFour]St. Anthony St. Anthony
Please come around.
Something is lost
And must be found.

I'm not Catholic, and I mean no disrespect, but awhile ago on this board someone posted something similar, it was...Tony, Tony, do your stuff. I've looked and looked. I had enough! ... I have actually had success with this!!! :thumbup:

Did you try looking in a different room? Maybe you remember putting it in a room...just not your sewing room?

They're probably with some of my stuff :) Spent a lot of time the other day rolling around my room looking for the piece I was working on. Finally found it on the back of my rolling chair!

clear your mind and retrace your bringing it in toyour sewing room,today I could'nt find my car keys and my DH and I turned the place upside down,so I have to borrow his ,i had a 10 o'clock appointment, when I got back I retraced the last time I had them, I remembered I put a set of keys on the key rack when I should have put other key ther ,Inever putmy main set of keys on the key reck.Hope you find your book and rulers..

d. swindle

I did this yesterday and many times before. I have stacks of patterns and fabric and what have you stacked all over my sewing room. Somehow my new purchases end up at the bottom of one of these piles. Don't know why !!!
You will find it when you give up and start something else. Good luck.

Not exactly the same, but had to find some files today and had to go into 3 files cabinets to find them

Hello, Bella!
Appeared your accessory?
Sure you were the goblins!
You should take a glass and place it face down while saying: "Goblins ... you in this glass prison until my rule!" Just once you see your lost object ... can release the goblin turning your glass! (Insurance will soon ... they are free beings, mischievous .. but do not like being locked up!)
Works for me! :thumbup:
Hahaha!
A big hug for you! :D

Ah, the gremlins have moved into your place! So glad they left here!!! :-) Always spend way too much time looking for things I know I put "right there!"

I swear my folks house has a gremlin that likes to move things. I was down in the basement one day to get a bag of sugar. I know where it is, it's always in the same place. It wasn't there!! Frustrated, I turn around and walk out of that side of the basement and say, "PUT IT BACK!!"

Walk back into the room, there it is, where it should be!!

Go back to your car and look in it. Also check the garbage, maybe someone (???i) threw it away.

Totally illegal I cringe and shudder at what the penalty would be for such an act