lost books
 

I am totally frustrated. I know I own two applique books, but don't have a clue where they are. I have been searching for days. I know what they look like, as I was thinking of buying them again, and I know that I didn't lend them out, as I don't have anyone around here to lend them to. One of them is pink, so it would stand out. I have two book cases, and I checked under the bed, as I read in bed. I bought them years ago... Ughhh

I hate it when that happens. Did you by chance loan them out to a friend and never got them back? If they never show up, search ebay or Amazon for replacements that don't cost much-I have done this before and eventually found the originals! You can always resell one of them.......

I can't tell you how many times that has happened to me! I usually find whatever I have lost when I take everything out of the bookcase and put things in order! Then I discover I've been looking right over it for hours.

.maybe the covers are different from the way you remember them?

This has happened to me.

Hope they show up soon for you.

Have misplaced some interfacing that seems to be hiding out on ke. The plus side - I have rediscovered some itrms I had fofgotten about.

Sometimes things just disappear. I lost my little iron awhile ago and finally bought another. Never found the first one. I lost a book and finally found it in a bag with the quilt pieces tucked away in a cupboard. Good luck finding the books or finding them on sale for a reasonable price.
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Oh, I feel your pain! I moved 2 years ago, and I could not find some of my favorite sewing books! I looked in every cabinet and bookshelf, under the bed, in the spare bedrooms, and checked every box left in the basement that was labelled anything like 'books' or 'sewing'. Nothing. I complained so often about losing them, my husband got in the game. Guess what? They were in a box marked 'kitchen'! He said he put them there because he though I could find them easily ;-) sigh. At least I eventually found mine, and I hope you do too.

Pam

relax. its usually in the first place you looked for it. is there anything near the bed where you could have put it? in a drawer. maybe it found itself under the blanket at the foot of the bed. its there somewhere. you know you didnt throw it out. it will show up. if not ask for the books here and maybe someone has it and doesnt want it any longer.

Oh my, I'm sorry to say that this happens to me, too. And it is SO FRUSTRATING!!... makes a Christian woman want to swear!! I do refrain myself, though. Do you keep your books in more than one place? Have you taken them all off the shelves and restocked them? I don't know what else to suggest. I hope you locate them because I'd hate to have to purchase duplicates.

I have been in an organization mode for about a year now. We winter in one house and summer in another 500 miles away so it is essential that I know where things are and.... things can be a burden at some point. I've been there. I now have a quilting organization book that tells me where things are. I know.... I'm a little OCD (my kids say a lot OCD) but it works for me, finally. I don't spend near as much time 'looking for something' as I used to. And as I get older, I'm also giving some stuff away that I won't ever use.

I've had books fall between the footboard and the mattress. But the beset way to find your books is to replace them with new ones. The old ones will show up shortly after that.

I am sorry you can't find them. I know how that is!! Years ago I bought a brand new skirt. I took it out of the closet a few times that week excited about wearing it to church that Sunday. Come Sunday morning the skirt was NO where to be found. I still have NO idea where it went!

I have found books in between fabric that I have set aside to use with a pattern from the books. After doing this for years, I still forget I put the book with the fabrics as a reminder I already have the pattern and the fabrics.

This happens to me and it is frustrating and I didn't like how it stays on my mind making me feel frustrated. Now if I look for something and it's gone, I quit thinking about it immediately and buy another. The lost will show up or not, it doesn't matter. Funny how this only happens to my sewing items. Anything that needs cleaning never gets lost.

That happened to me, but with money. It was my first year teaching .... many,many moons ago.....and I was so proud to be saving my pay to get my parents a great Xmas gift bought with my own money. I was boarding with a family and an envelope with $2000 went missing. Not for a moment did I think the family was to blame as they were as honest as honest come. We searched for a long time and I finally thought it was gone forever, probably lost from my pocket on the way home from the bank.
I left these people at the end of the school year.
The next year they moved to another city. They took out the drawers to move out the bedroom dresser I had used. When they lifted the dresser, the envelope of money slipped out on the floor.
Apparently, I stuffed the money into the back of the drawer and it slipped over the back edge and got stuck between the drawer back and the dresser back panel.
Yes, the drawers had been searched, and we had pulled out the dresser to check the floor behind it, but it stayed stuck up against the back.
What a wonderful surprise when the lady called me to report the find!

So, check out the area down behind the books and other furniture with drawers.
Hope your books are found.

Did you perhaps lend them to someone? I feel your pain!

One thing that I have learned about being in your situation (and I have been in your situation many times sigh...) Stop picturing the books in your mind. I lost a quilt kit and could not find it anywhere. I thought someone had sneaked into my house and stole it. I could picture the kit in my mind; in a bag. A couple of years later I was cleaning out my sewing area and there it was! I had taken it out of the bag and put it in a shirt box. I still don't remember doing that. If I had stopped visualizing it as I remembered it, I would have found it much sooner. I hope this makes sense and good luck.

Oh dear! I am so sorry, that is so frustrating. I can't tell you how many times I have lost my favorite book by fig tree quilts. For some reason it just gets put into the wrong place and I spend days searching.

I moved 10 months ago and went looking for a quilt book and couldn't find it. I was also looking for a 1/4 yard of a certain fabric and it was not where it should be. SO frustrating. Usually, when I stop looking for something it appears within a week or so. But since the move, NOTHING has appeared saying here I am. I am starting to label boxes with what the contents are. Hope that helps me !!

Ugh. And as soon as you buy a replacement, the first one shows up. That's how I ended up with two cameras. (And naturally, despite being the same brand, they can't share batteries.)

I just recently paid a small fortune to replace my missing Wacom drawing tablet. I waited forever but it just never turned up - it may have been lost or (more unlikley) stolen in a move. But now that I've replaced it I fully expect it to turn up someplace weird.

So guarantee, you buy new ones, the old ones will turn up someplace like on top of the 'fridge, or behind a bookcase.

This is so cute, made me giggle.....there was a comedian a long time ago that would say.....the devil made me do it.....maybe that time he did it, knowing where you wanted to wear that skirt.....

I am sure if I were to move I would find all the things that have grown feet and walked away in my house.....makes me think I am going bonkers!

I lost a quilt off of my bed once. Just knew my then husband had threw it in his truck or something. Finally found when we moved. The water bed had eaten it. It was shoved way down between the mattress and the wood sides. Have no idea how it done it. But yes, the books will turn up when you replace them.

I feel your pain :)
I pulled a tarot card for you, 4 of Swords.
Take a respite. They are right in front of you, but your stress is making you blind to them. Rest. Relax. Breathe.

For myself when this happens I immediately jump straight to alzheimer's

Oh, my, I cannot name all the stuff I have lost...most of it I eventually find. What is most frustrating to me is to be sitting and doing hand sewing, and to lose my thimble, scissors, etc when I have not moved from the spot!

i agree w/kalamaquilts. i told you they were right there. take a deep breath. give up looking. you'll find them.

Oh, it's awful when that type of thing happens. Here's hoping you find them soon!

Replace them. Once you do your old ones will reappear. I have doubles of several things because of this phenomenon.

We've all done that......when I first started quilting, I bought a pattern, cut out the fabric per instructions, bagged and tagged everything. Then we started moving from Wisconsin back to Alabama, and then my DH had a heart attack. Long story, but after a year, we finally got to finish the move. Anyway, that pattern and fabric were in the first boxed things we moved back to Ala., and I finally found them just about 5 yrs. to the day after we brought them back and stored them here. Now to find the directions........they're here somewhere.......

Could you have put the books with the fabric for the projects you wanted to do? Also look in piles of magazines - the quilt books like to hide!

I still haven't found them, and I am laughing at all the responses.. I am no used to losing things. I am putting the search on hold, as I went to a tag sale at a fabric hoarders home, and hit a jackpot.. I went in the a.m., but didn't stay long, as I had the dog in the car. It was still cool, and it was parked under a tree with the roof open.. He was okay.. I stuffed a tote bag, and paid $10.. Went back near the end, and decided to go upstairs to see what else the lady had.. OMG.. The upstairs was full of plastic boxes stuffed.. I ended up buying a huge box, and was very selective. I tried to buy fabric that wasn't dated. I bought a ton of dots, and larges pieces with yardage. Since I don't have to buy fabric ever again, I might as well think of buying new books.. The total for the day was $70.. I have about 400 yards.. Before that, I have to call my sister in law, and ask if I brought them over there to read, and forgot them..

The surest way to find a lost item is to buy a replacement.

I'm sorry! I know how you feel, I have done this more than once. One time I found the book in the UFO bag with the rest of the project I had started using the book. Another time I found it in a small stack I had taken upstairs to look at while in the tub, lol. I have often thought I need a system to catalog my books as I have WAY too many to keep track of, but that project has not gotten to the top of the list... yet. I hope you find your book!

Look for something else...it'll pop up. always works for me!

Oh Boy, sounds like me. I usually look for something else, and guess what appears, especially when I am about to give up on finding anything. I have done this several times, and it appears to work. Of course some of the time, it does not. Good Luck, hope you find them, but to be sure, when you buy them again, they first ones will be right where they should be.

Yep, no sooner do I ask someone to resend a document or I repurchase an item, does the original magically reappear. I went on a hunt for rotary cutter blades last night - finally found them in the first place I looked... at least the ones I put in my Amazon cart will eventually get used anyway - always good to have extras on hand.

Cheers, K

As soon as you buy them, you will find them. Always works for me.

Go buy them again BUT keep the sales slip - cause as soon as you buy them - you will find the other ones!!!! That always happens to me - and now - you too.

I've been searching the house over the past few weeks for my Harriet Hargrave Quilter's Academy series. Finally found the last book - 1 - now in my tote - was under a stack of fabric, 2 - under a stack by the bed, 4 - on the low bookshelf stacked horizontally (this is actually the one I knew where to find), 3 - on the shelf above number 4 - at the end, so if I had just looked up from my sewing chair, the cover was staring me in the face... this is the one I've been most worried about having to replace.

Cheers, K

Perhaps if you don't look so hard for it, it will show up. And congrats on your great fabric score! :)

Ditto to losing quilt books. I bought a second copy of one and then found the missing one. I had had holes punched in the original and had stored it in a notebook. One day I picked up the notebook, and well, you know the rest.

You are so correct UFOs Galore - bought a pattern couldn't find it - bought another - the next day I found the first one!!

Perhaps your books are with my seam rippers - I can never find them and then suddenly I have 5!!

So...stop looking and look online for some tutes or maybe someone can refer you to some good ones. What kind of applique do you want to do ...hand or machine? The books are always good for easy reference but I find I learn more online. There are good instructions on this board too.