Not lost, but can't find
 

I've looked high and low through my sewing room and the house. Can't find my applique pressing sheet. Working on the quilt "Welcome to the North Pole" it's by the Piece O Cake ladies . I'm doing the fusible method. So I need that pressing sheet to assemble the house details. Looked in boxes, drawers, closets. On the floor, under piles of stuff. Behind my sewing desk. On shelves. Moved stuff. I'm just about ready to buy a new one!
Ever have things that you didn't "lose", but that you just can't find??

Always. Try parchment paper.

Me too---I use Parchment paper

I actually prefer parchment paper. Plus I can always find it in the kitchen drawer!

Me three ... parchment paper is my only go to!

Me four. Parchment for the win!

Since I don't have an actual "sewing room", I lose things all the time! Bought myself a really nice Ikea bookcase that holds square baskets and although I keep trying to organize those baskets into "like" items it just hasn't worked out. Some fabrics need their own basket. Do the jelly rolls count as a color or as a project? I have a pressing sheet somewhere too - glad to know that I can use parchment paper!

this was my first thought, too. I hate it when I can't find something, especially when I put it away in a 'safe' place.

Story of my life. Then when you go out and re-buy something, you trip over whatever it was you were looking for as soon as you come in the house.

And the "safe places" are the worst. It's been decades sometimes before they come back up to the surface...

It’s with my set of 4 patriotic placement that I made and put away until the season arrived.

Yes, parchment works. I wouldn't try to iron the fusible pieces without something over them. That could result in another problem, sad to say, where now they're stuck on the iron.

I lost my "all purpose tool" that goes with my Bernina. I need it to adjust the bobbin tension and open up the little door to access a top thread problem. It always goes back on the shelf in the same spot. So what happened to it.

How thick is the package? Could you have put it in a book or magazine ? Or it never made it into the house? Try the trunk. We lost our remote once, and searched everywhere for 3 days. On the 4th night we were watching TV, DH decided to eat the rest of the potato chips. Lo and behold, the remote was in the chip bag! So now whenever something goes AWOL, we say “check the chip bag.”

I always find it in the last place I look. maybe you put it with another project so you would have it then. use parchment paper until you do find it. mine is well over 20 years old and moved with me back to Texas. i'm lucky the movers didn't lose it!

Since I started using parchment paper I don't even think about using the applique pressing sheet. However I keep mine rolled up inside a round tube which previously held gift wrapping paper.

Sometimes I think I spend more time looking for something than actually working. It makes me so dang mad!

I lost my credit card the other day. Reported it lost and then found it under the bed. I know how it got there, but I couldn't remember where it was when I was looking for it.

Buy a new one...you will find the old one really fast!

Well of course, because you stop looking! :D

I have been sewing string blocks all week. I had a big stack of them on my cutting table. I went to sew more today and couldn't find the stack anywhere. ? I found them in a bin stuck behind a cabinet. No why on earth would I have done that? I have a slight memory of doing it but why why why? LOL

I lose things all the time. I recently "lost" all my blocks for a Saturday Sampler. Duh, they were on my design board! Right before my very eyes!!

My favorite is when I put something in a safe place. Still looking for some of my safe places.

After the last time I lost something, I deceided to start a "safe place" notebook. So when I put something in a safe place I jot it down. Now if I can just remember where I put the notebook...

That's been my experience! A few months' ago, I "lost" every stitch ripper thingy I owned. Searched all over. We all know that we can't live without this gismo, so I hiked myself to my neighborhood Hobby Lobby, bought one, and when I got home... You guessed it, I found 3 of them just where they were supposed to be!! I know they jumped out of that box and hid just to confuse me!

This happens to me every time I travel. I put things in my sewing room 'away' for 'safekeeping', and to clean up the room for the petsitter who comes in...months later I will find things I stashed. I drive me crazy!

I have done that with non sewing related things. Can't for the life of me find them.

Finding the lost can sometimes be frustrating...and funny. Last weekend my DH was searching for "something". After several minutes I finally asked "What. are. you. looking. for?" (In a very loud voice). "My glasses" he says. I said "Stop looking....you're wearing them."

Far to often. LOL

Heavens!! How big are your chip bags over there?

I guess I go straight to 'single serve' size; there's only me and I just wouldn't be able to trust myself to stop. :o

Nativetexan, 'I always find things the last place I look' ............ I just love some of the things we all say. Why would you carry on looking after you find something?:)

Even though I am a little OCD and have a tidy sewing room...I misplaced my 9mm stitch plate to my Bernina and had to purchase a new one before I could do anything other than a straight stitch. Luckily I had another machine I could use in the meanwhile but I mean I looked everywhere before I pulled out my credit card for a new one.

Of course....all the time...especially patterns...once I paper pieced blocks for a whole quilt and when I started piecing it together I was missing about one third of the blocks...I could have sworn I had enough but just couldn t find any more anywhere so.... made some more. I few months passed I found the missing blocks in a pile of fabric and I now have a bunch of blocks and have no intention on making a second quilt...thy are still waiting for me to do something with them...lol

So happy to know I am not the only one who has so many safe places that are invisible.

that is the reason most of us have multiple seam rippers, pins, marking tools, etc., etc., etc.,...........

Ugh, I do that all the time. Right now my sewing room is such a mess that none of my cats want to be in there! That tells me it's really bad :D
Hope you find a solution to your current problem!

One fateful day, a customer came in and bought $240.00 worth of merchandise. He handed me two one hundred dollar bills and two twenty dollar bills. I thought i had put them in my purse.

When I went to the bank to deposit the money, I could not find it. I retraced my steps; post office, water office, pharmacy. No money. I asked the post office to go through the bottom of the letter boxes and they did. Nothing.

I had several employees go through my purse and look. Nothing.

So I figured that I could stand that loss and I should just keep on going, after all whoever had that money probably needed it more than I did.

I was on my way to some meeting when I got thirsty and stopped at a convenience store to get my all time favorite: Dr. Pepper. When I reached into my purse to get some money to pay for the Dr. Pepper, I pulled the $240.00 out. I still have no explanation, unless we put it in the category of looking straight at it and not seeing.

I keep mine right next to my ironing board so its nearby. Don't use it often but nice to have it when I need it.

It happens to me all the time. These days I put it down to age, but over 30 years ago I couldn't find a Volvo estate car in a multi story car park; and it had bike racks on the top! I looked on the level I'd left it and then every other level and back to where I was sure I'd left it............... still no car so I phoned a friend to say the car had been stolen and to pick up the children from school, I had to find a public phone in those days. Went for a final look before I phoned the police and there was the car, just where I'd left it. Go figure!

It's nice to know this is a common problem! I do think I'm getting worse all the time tho! I have two pedometers because one is always missing for a short while. We went on vacation and managed to keep both of them around the whole time til we got home and I haven't been able to find either A month later I bought another and the others still haven't appeared. I won't even go into the missing things in my sewing room...

I'd like the quilter here who hasn't lost things to stand up and be counted!

PS stop looking and it will appear....

I found everytime I move something from its original place to a safe place, then I cannot find that safe place, now when I move things around I have a book that I keep a record of where my latest safe place is, and it helps. Although after saying that, there are still some things (larger items - like completed appliqued quilt blocks) that I still cannot find, which was moved to a safer place, before my book.