I usually find things when I stop looking for them. I look too too hard. (Maybe that neatly folded muslin slid off the shelf (table) and is hiding behind it, either wedged in or on the floor). (Or folded up inside another piece of fabric.) Happy hunting

I know where it is! It ran off with the 15 yards of sheer fabric I bought for my living room and now can't seem to locate.

It seems that any time I try to straighten up a cupboard, if I move anything from it's messy place - it is no longer findable. I just don't dare move anything. If I move anything to keep it safe or hidden from someone, it is very safe and hidden from me also. My DH had his birthday July 10 - I was so "on top of it" and bought his BD card early and hid it - still haven't found the darned thing.

Look under all the beds!!

My husband bought a quilt kit a few years ago (to many years to count) and I knew exactly where it was hidden and in what drawer. Well I rececorated my sewing room couple of years ago. I remember moving that kit. Went looking for it last week to finally make it. That little jewel is no where to be found. I keep thinking it is somewhere that it can see me and laughing histerically as I search. Thats what I get for trying to improve my space.

Funny, just this morning I found some muslin in my stash. Where it came from I dont know. It is not washed, now that is really strange as I make a habit of washing fabric as soon as I bring it in the door. Could it be yours? It is at least 4 yards....

I did that with my frog material. Looked high and low for weeks. For sheer desperation I went thru all boxes and cabinets one more time and there it was in a clear plastic bin was my material.I posted a picure a while back of the quilt.
Good luck with your muslin.

I have to admit that Santa has left some Christmas gifts in unusual places!!! lol!!

I am a searcher. My sewing room is really small and it has to compete with my computer and card making, so things get pushed into every little nook and cranny. After I have searched until I have lost my mind, also, I just give up and one day I'll find it and think, "Now what was I going to do with this?"

Oh my! Me too! My family jokes that there is always one of them whose present gets lost. :shock: The kids all have birthdays in January and February and always joke that "Well! I guess you know that you will get at least 1 present for your birthday! :lol: "

My fabric and such, also seam to take a notion to go on a walkabout just when I need them most! Hope you find your fabric soon! I know how frustrating it can be!

I am always losig things. Christmas things I buy ahead of time especially. My girls are always asking " Mom do you have anything else that goes under the Christmas tree?" HA HA

I think it's probably with all those lost socks. You know, when put a pair in the wash and only one comes out.

:lol:

You're probably right.

you are looking right at it...really you are...

Been there, done that. Went on vacation once, and for some
reason decided that burglars were waiting with baited breath
just to steal my new set of table silver. So I hid it, then went
on vacation and had a swell time. Came home and it took me
two darn years to find that set. Turns out I had stuffed them,
one by one, deep inside the crevices of my over stuffed sofa!!

But the burglars never found them!! And now I have that
spare set we had to buy to use till the others were found.

Another time I had rolled some jewelry inside towels and put
them deep in the linen cabinet..felt strange to open them to
hang them and out dropped the stuff I'd accused the kids of
losing.

When I can't find something I find if I quick for a while and go back it usually turns up. Frequently in one of the places I had already looked. :)

Did you make the bed with it?

With all the ideas everyone is giving me I'll have to go home and start my search all over again. :)

Been there done that, as a matter of fact, at this moment, I have a whole order of fabric from Fabric.com that I cannot find. So don't feel bad.

Haven't lost material yet but did lose an 24 x 24 ironing surface. A friend made me two of them but I was only using one on my kitchen/dining room divider counter. Wanted to iron a quilt so I wanted the both of them to make a 24 x 48 ironing surface. Looked in every closet and sewing area (scattered in the condo) and could not find it. Looked for 2 days. Ended up just using the one on my counter. Went to a quilt meeting and when I got home I decided to sew (machine on my dining table) a few cats (lots of pieces). Well guess what I found - the other 24x24 surace, sitting in open view on my dining table, but mostly covered with the pieces of fabric for the cats. Had a good laugh at how blind I was!

Makes me laugh at all the things I have not found

You will find it when you are not looking for it and it will probably be where you usually would have put it.

This week I have lost the bottoms for support of Bow Tucks, handsewing needles and fray check. When I cleaned off one corner of my cutting table this evening I found the bottoms but have no idea where the other things are. The needles were in a pincushion. I found the pincushion but no needles.

I did that with 2 sets of crazy curve templates. I still can't find them and had to buy another 7" set to do my quilt. I even asked my quilting buddy if I loaned them to her - nope! I think they are the same place as all those socks from the dryer!

You all make me feel normal. I was wondering how much was age. Now I just choose to call it the creative process.

I am glad that I am not the only person who has gremlins. :mrgreen:

cant wait till you find it to let us know !!!!

I once got a couple of yards of "challenge" fabric from my quilt guild, brought it home and put it in a plastic ziplok and even put a label on it so I'd know what it was for. The challenge due date neared and that fabric was no where to be found. Two years later, after numerous searches by several friends, the fabric showed up shoved in the middle of a stack of fabric on my shelves! Talk about gremlins!

Found the fray check so now it's just the needles. I wonder what I'll be missing tomorrow.

Happens to me all the time. This afternoon I spent time looking for a pack of fusible web that I had recently bought - I knew I had purchased it - and looked in two rooms. Found it finally, on the bottom of a chair under batting pieces and material! Go figure!

Haven't finished all the posts...hope you have found it by now.....Look among the white fabric that you have,,,it's there.

Every time I clean my sewing room, something hides from me...that should teach me to not clean. It would save time and frustration... LOL!

Yep, Murphy's Law

mistake

It's probably where you left it. :-D

Happened to me recently. My nephew and his bride had given me some wedding pictures. Brought them home and "put them up"(haha). Two days later when I thought of them again, could not find them. Usually put everything on dining room table that is important, until I can put it where it goes, Nope, not there. Looked on the dining room table, in my vehicle,under the seats, in the console, in the refrigerator(doesn't everyone keep their pictures in the frig). Honestly when came home with the pictures had some salads in my hands that needed to go in the frig so thought I might have put the pics in there also. Looked on the dining room table again. Went dumpster diving,trash day so trash was out by the street,just barely daylight out by the street in my housecoat and gown, hair uncombed digging through trash, NOPE. Back to house looked everywhere(obviously not), still did not find. Got new trash bag went to dumpster again, got top trash bag took it to the porch and went through it piece, putting pieces in new trash bag, still did not find. Took both trash bags back to dumpster, when I came in the house, the light bulb over my head came on, they were in the sewing room, sure enough I found them on my sewing table. You will find the muslin right after you go out and buy more.

Look for something else. Works for me. When I 'loose' someting, I look for something else and it's revealed!!! every time!!!

Oh my goodness! I did the same thing. Waited until Christmas Eve to wrap the kids presents, ages 1,3,5, and I couldn't find them. I was frantic for about an hour!! Guess what! Found them right where I put them!!

I FOUND IT!
I was actually looking for something else that went missing (found that too) and there it was. Just like everyone said, pretty much in plain sight. However, now I don't need it. I made my FMQ practice piece out of a scrap that turned up during the search.

I have a mischievious old lady (invisible) who lives in my house. She moves my things, drinks my coffee, hides my scissors......Maybe she paid you a visit ;)