I lose my glasses occasionally. I'll be looking and looking for them and when I find them I'll put them on thinking "Good, now I can see better to find what I'm looking for!". As I continue looking I realize I've forgotten what I'm looking for!

I had a pattern to a Churn Dash quilt that makes two blocks at one time. I’ve made over 20 blocks about six years ago and found all of them but couldn’t find the pattern anywhere. It took me a while of hunting online but I finally found the pattern that makes two blocks at the same time but they were sold out of the pattern that you order and get shipped to you. I was able to buy a pdf of the pattern though and that works and no, my original pattern didn’t show up.

And I had a king size rag quilt all ready to be sewn together and I keep it in my dresser in my sewing room. I bought it eight years ago. It came cut, with thin some kind of batting that is as large as the blocks so you don’t have to make an ‘X’ on each square, you just sew the already frayed edges together and your quilt is done. I went to get it and sew it together for my DS but it wasn’t there. There were three other rag quilts lined up, ready to go that I know nothing about. I don’t even remember buying them or owning them or seeing them before. Something strange is going on in my sewing room and I don’t like it one little bit!

What I've lost recently
 

Only my mind. And I have no duplicate to get me through!

My theory is to stop looking and the item will find me. Once I stop looking, my brain relaxes and I frequently remember where I last saw the item. Right now my challenge fabric is playing hide and seek.

Oh love all the inputs!!!!!!!!! This is a topic I doubt will ever get solved--those little guys sure do move around to all of us.

I wish people would ASK before they take it upon themselves to "help" us clean up, clean out, or put away stuff. I wouldn't dare try to guess what is to be stored,thrown away, etc. Some folks just can't be trusted around my stuff. I have had people throw things of mine away even in my kitchen.

I am a bit frantic trying to find the insert that fits around my machine into the sewing table; have searched 3 different places where I sew: my apartment, my complex's community room, and my former cottage. Still hiding and I'm getting really irked!! :mad:

Just yesterday, my old seam ripper became almost useless because it was too dull to cut the threads. I knew I had a few more around, so I threw it away.... I couldn't find any ... not one. So, today I stopped by Hobby Lobby and bought one. When I went into the sewing room, I found three of them just sitting in the open space on the cutting table. I live alone without any pets. It's got to be a ghost of somebody I was mean to!!

I can't believe it! I just found my camera that has been missing for at least 3 years in a bag of fabric that has been missing for the same amount of time. I've looked all over for that fabric, as it was everything I needed to make a particular quilt. I had no idea where I had lost the camera or when, for that matter. Well, now I know.

How is it possible to lose something in a room that is only 10' x 12'? It is not a large room, by any stretch of the imagination and yet I lose things constantly.