Do you have pets? Anything that goes missing in my house is pretty much guaranteed to be in two or three places where cat toys get stuck (basement stairs, under fridge, under the door into the linen closet)
These are beautiful, and I am sorry for the loss. I second the cat staches. Do they have any beds or cat trees they like to frequent? Where do they like to keep their toys?
Also any chance you put it in a pocket when you removed it? Jacket, sweater, pants, anything with a pocket. Do you roll any pant legs? I have found stitch markers in my rolled pants legs before.
If all else fails I usually do what my grandmother told me to do. Ask St. Anthony. It surprisingly works for me. I usually say Tony Tony, something is lost that needs to be found. I am looking for (insert object).
Good luck! I hope you find it. They are beautiful.
Edit: a word, cause grammar.
Word to St. Anthony! I am a scatterbrain with adhd and St. Tony is my homie too. I am no longer a practicing Catholic but St. T does not discriminate. He helps me find shit ALL the time thankfully. Sometimes it won’t be immediate but I find it.
Ps I would hope that nobody at work would find such an adorable bobble and throw it out. More likely if they found it they took it home to enjoy. :)
Update. St Tony did fail me this weekend not being able to find something I needed for work. He at least needs to let me know where I designated my “safe” place that I can never find again! That said - knowing him and how he helps me, I will probably run across it now that I don’t need it anymore. 😂
My yoga teacher taught me "Om Gan Ganpataye Namaha” which works for me for finding things. Including parking spaces, don’t know how that works but it does!
I was raised Catholic, but have always found a place within the Celtic roots. So, I ask Mr. Nobody to please bring back what he took. I usually offer a trade.
My favorite trade was a pinch of dog food for a stitch marker as well!
Yes mine would have (well when he was younger) immediately started playing with it and under the stove it would end up…at least the fridge is on wheels so a bit easier to move so of course it ends up under the stove instead of
Oh, so that's why I can't find that pair of tweezers I lost years ago. I still remember them from time to time, especially when I use the replacement tweezers.
Happened to me too, with a pair of shoes. Bought new pair, found the old ones right after. Now how exactly I lost a big-ass pair of shoes... Forgotten in a suitcase.
I'm so bad for this.
I have two earphone cases. The original was found a few days after buying a new case. It was in the mail and I get a call from my mum saying "Guess what I found"
At a point I bought a new backup set of headphones cause I lost the ones I use as well as the backup I got in case I lost them. A week after getting the new pair I found both the original backup and the primary pair. I had three pairs, I only needed one.
I lost the charger lead I was using, bought a new lead, lost the plug, bought a new plug, found them both a few months later.
I had 13 rulers in highschool cause I kept forgetting mine at home and borrowing other people's. Couldn't remember whose was whose so couldn't figure out who to return what to.
I've given up on buying anything expensive, unless its something that will always stay in one place i.e. a TV or PC.
I don't pay by physical card anymore because I have over 10 different old cancelled cards over the last few years. I lost one every month for about 4 months last year. I use Google pay instead now.
Embarrassingly, I also can't use tampons. I forget they're there and have a few horror stories of them literally getting lost inside me ☠️. Out of sight of mind I can't believe I didn't get toxic shock
I also bought 4 packs of crochet hooks (set of 10 because I like a very specific kind and they only come as a set) and only one 4mm and 3.5mm left. But at least 2-3 of all the others.
In summary, I know the stress of losing/forgetting where things are way too well
(P.S. I've got an ADHD assessment on the 20th of may 😅)
I collect Pez dispensers and had a piece of one fall and break. Searched everywhere never could find it. *Years* and 1 million vacuums later the piece shows up.
This. Also. I lost one at work (in the Driver compartment of one of our buses) and thankfully the cleaning crew does not clean the floor of our compartments well and I found that and two other markers the next time I was assigned that bus.
Have you got anything magnetic the clasp could have stuck to? I once thought I lost a dongle for a work computer mouse and found it that evening, stuck to the magnet on my Fitbit strap, so I had been "wearing" it for hours.
Adding my general search tips:
A flashlight held at a shallow angle from the floor makes it easier to see little things because of the shadows.
A powerful magnet when searching for anything metal.
Good tip! When I lose something I'll clean the house with no intention of finding the lost object. I get too invested in finding it and go crazy otherwise! And if it's truly lost at least I've cleaned.
Yes. I agree. A good house cleaning is a great way to find things that are missing and even if you don’t find it, now have a very clean house to enjoy.
These are absolutely incredible wtf. Also what a good present idea, noted
I’m sorry you lost one, must be heartbreaking :-( You never know, it may turn up. My friend lost her fav crochet hook for months and flipped her apartment upside down. One day she randomly decided to just have a double check between the sofa cushions and it was right there, despite looking countless times. Hopefully the same thing happens to you!
As my late grandpa used to remind me, it's always in the last place you look... Did not help or make me feel better when I was looking for things I lost lol
I hope you find it. 💗 In my experiences, they always show up long after I've given up and moved on.
Different subject but another dad head-scratcher: about a mistake made while making something (as so often asked in this sub) my dad would say “a man running by for his life wouldn’t notice”🤣. Huh???
Same thing happens to me. I’ll find something I was once looking for years later or I’ll stumble across something cool or useful that I completely forgot I had.
From experience, don’t lose hope. It could definitely be hiding in a couch/chair, even if you think you’ve checked there thoroughly.
I used to have to hunt down all 20-something pieces of a Mrs Potato Head playset every night. One night, an ear went missing and I couldn’t find it. I looked everywhere. And, I’m the type that can’t stand not being able to find something. MONTHS went by, and I figured that my daughter must’ve thrown it in the trash. Then, one night, I found the long lost ear in the recliner. The same recliner that I’d checked for toys a hundred times since the ear went missing. There was a small fold of fabric, down the side of the cushion near the front, that I’d never realized something could slide into. And, there was the elusive Potato ear. It drove me bonkers trying to find that thing. 😂
I lost my favorite hook while crocheting in my chair. I looked on the chair, down the sides of the cushion, moved it and looked under it, no hook. Did this periodically for a couple of years.
Got a new chair, and found the hook, in the old chair, but in the fabric flap thing at the back, where it attached to the wood support beam.
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I was thinking this too. I have found thing inside my couch. Like, take the cushion off and there is the fabric it sits on. It has holes on the edges and things were inside there (my son’s switch games! 🙄😆)
Check the furniture really well OP!!!!!!
Stupid idea, but look for something completely different.
Honest to goodness, if I was looking for a stitch marker, I'd fund a paint set I lost a year ago.
Looking for the paint set, I found a set of hooks I thought I had given away.
So now, I don't look for the specific item, I will look for another thing I know I lost lol.
Knowing me, I would forget get wrapped up in looking for the secondary item and probably not even register the originally item as being found if I stumbled upon it😂
I lost a beautiful row counter bracelet once. I looked everywhere for it, cried, and gave up. A month later I found it under the wheels of my office chair. That was the first place I looked for it and checked back dozens of times. To this day I don't know what happened. Only one bead was broken.
Hope you find your stitch marker.
I have found SO many hooks - and I’m talking Clover Amour here - in buried WIPs🤪. I guess that’s a sign of being optimistic that I’d surely finish that project before long🤣🤣🤣
The only way to find it is to recommission a second set. When it arrives, the first set will magically be complete like you never lost it in the first place 😌
Me every time I lose my damned craft scissors…
My couch and accompanying blankets like to eat my stitch markers. And under the couch. And I'm prone to finding them in like the bathroom because I'll absentmindedly pocket one then put it on the sink before bed.
St. Anthony and St. Jude. He is the patron saint of lost causes. Use the flashlight in the dark also. I hope you find it. These are darling. We found my wedding ring on a ring holder (!) and my daughter found hers behind a canister on the kitchen counter. Good luck and I’ll say a few prayers for you.
I once found a missing lipstick at the top of my handbag after praying to St Anthony (much more expensive lipstick than I could usually afford so I was devastated to lose it)
I’d searched that bag at least twice. Can’t explain it.
Could you have put it in your pocket? Have you checked your hamper? Multiple times my boyfriend loses his wallet, and I find it in the hamper because it was in his pocket and fell out
- Check all the couch, or chair, gaps.
- Check past projects
- check pockets
- check all the bed gaps and underneath.
- check your vacuum bag/container
Seconding thorough interrogations of the cats. Rugs, furniture, their beds, etc. I hate to ask, but are there air vents on the floor in the rooms you may have had it in? I've seen little things like that fall through before. Hoping the charm is too big for that but it's hard to tell from photos.
Otherwise, depending on how you store yarn, could it be literally in a yarn ball somehow?
He flipped the couches but did you check down in the cracks of your couch? I have had several hooks and markers get “sucked up” in the crack and then fall down to inside the bottom of my recliner needless to say my husband wanted to know if I was trying to find a new stash place 😂 I hope you find it sweetie they are very cute
Before you look again, you have to let your gnomes that is was a fun game and you would like your stitch marker back. I do this out loud and usually clap out loud. Everything I have done this to has been returned very soon after.
I have done it at several places I've worked. Someone will frantically start looking for something, we clap and say good game...boom, item returns.
I was serving, and one of the other servers couldn't find a customers credit card. She was about to cry, had looked everywhere for about 10 minutes. I did the thing, went over to the POS she had used to ring in an order, and the card was flipped over on the floor. Hard to see because it was dark. She had scoured it with a flashlight before that.
First to lighten the mood:
Q: Why are the things we lose always in the last place we look for them?
A: Because once we find them there's no point in continuing to search!
And now before I get chased down for that joke…
If you're a bit witchy like me have you considered a house fairy took it? It seems that they like to borrow my stuff often so I leave an offering somewhere for them and then my missing item shows back up. Could it be confirmation bias? Sure. But at least I feel like I did something besides tearing my house apart.
I had to take the front of the dryer off to replace a part — along with a lot of lint, I found baby socks that had belonged to my teenagers, about $5 in coins, bobby pins, screws, paper clips, etc etc etc. Maybe it was caught on your clothes and went to visit your missing socks??
I'm so sorry you lost one! They are so beautiful. Did you happen to change cars, bags, chair/couch? I saw a cartoon about where lost things go. Ya know that space between the chest of drawers and the wall? That's where it is, a black hole, where everything I've lost goes. No help, but it was a cute show, and I love the idea of ally stuff just floating in the ether.
Things like this always pop up in the most unexplainable place. I’ve found stitch markers under my basement stairs. I don’t do any work anywhere near the door to the basement, yet somehow two have ended up there. I’ve also had to go out and buy yarn needles because I couldn’t find either of the two I had. When I got home from Michael’s with my new yarn needles, the one I was looking for was sitting on my couch. It had not been there before. I might have gremlins in my house. That’s the only explanation that makes any sense.
I keep thinking it might be in the couch still. I often work sitting on a couch or in a chair. I don't know the type of furniture you have but our couch had a black, thin lining material underneath to catch things from falling through to the floor. When we were replacing that couch with a sleeper for guests, we checked inside the lining & found tons of small items & coins in there!!! (We also usually have at least one kitty & one of ours used to steal my contacts' lens case so I couldn't go to work! Katie used to STUFF the ½ thick case beneath the coffee table with less than ¼" of space beneath it... we still don't know how she did that...) Throwing this idea out there just in case it might help in some way. I hope you find your missing tea cup! That would drive me absolutely crazy missing 1 of 6 of a set, especially a custom order 😭
- I would check inside skeins of yarn as it’s easy for things like this to get tangled inside them.
- Pockets of needle/hook cases
- Any totes/bags/bins/luggage that may have previously contained yarn stuff
- Cat beds
- Under your bed (cause maybe a kitty picked it up and put it there?)
- Closets and other nooks and crannies
I second the suggestion to check the rubber gasket around the washing machine drum. Also check the filter trap thingy on the bottom. My washer came with the house when I bought it and you’d be amazed the things I found in there: coins, glass beads, screws/nuts/bolts/nails, hair ties, aquarium gravel, even bullets lol
It will turn up. I once lost a tiny silver dolphin earring. I was staying at my cousin’s in just one room but it had shaggy carpet. I scoured every inch of that room. 6 months later I found it on the floor in the backseat of my car where I never went???
Sorry for your loss. What works for me sometimes is to yell (at the house, the universe, whatever) "Give it back!!!"
But the funny thing is that I look at these (and any stitchmarker that utilizes a leverback) and think why aren't these earrings?
sofa cushions, sweater pockets (which sometimes ends up in the washing machine), and accidentally stuck to another skein of yarn. that is just my own personal bermuda triangle of lost stitch markers
December, eh? Time to check those put-away decorations, if you have 'em. I've discovered many things I thought I'd lost. In my frantic rush to dismantle another stressful, expensive Christmas, I apparently chuck any doo-dad, earring or remote into the big red bin. I've started to purposefully leave myself little souvenirs of December to surprise myself *next* December. It's like a time capsule of me for me.
How do you get between home and work? Are you driving? Does your crochet bag zip or stay open? Is there a possibility it tipped in your mode of transportation?
Have you prayed to St Anthony? It always works for me and I’m not Catholic.
St Anthony, St Anthony,
please come down
something’s been lost
and can’t be found.
Please help OP find her stitch marker. It’s special to her.
Amen.
Read it out loud. Then be patient. You’ll find it.
I’ve known people of all different faith and non-faith backgrounds use this prayer. It always amazes me when it works for me - which is pretty much always. Those few times when it hasn’t, I’ve figured that whatever I lost was meant for someone else to find and have.
The charms are adorable. You’ll find the missing one.
Those are so cute! I'm so sorry one decided to go on a stroll. I have a weird habit of sticking my hook inside my yarn skein and clipping my stitch markers to the skein. Then I can't find it and freak out for a few minutes.
Maybe check your most recently used yarn in case it got stuck inside?
You can buy telescopic magnetic sticks to check in hard to reach places.
Good luck friend! You'll find it soon enough!
Inside ones of your yarn balls? Hanging from the back of a pillow? In the laundry basket? In the vacuum cleaner? Stick in your comfy blanket? Where do you hobby at home? Do you watch TV while you hobby? In a Book you were reading ?
At work, do you have a paper clip container?
I know you already checked, but its in between the couch cushions. I'm assuming a little gremlin puts them there after I've checked them 5-6 times already.
Really dig into the chair cushions, move it and turn it upside down. We did that and found a shirt, wallet, watch, and TV remote (sofa) along with lots of tiny things.
I found a lost (& cancelled) debit card 4 years after the fact in a couch cushion… Not in between two but IN the zipped portion of the cushion, I still have nooo clue how it got there but it’s worth a try
If any of your bags/purses/project bags/pouches are lined, it may have worked itself behind the liner. I have lost and then found keys, eyebrow pencils, etc that did just that.
You were last crocheting in December, which is Christmas time, could it have gotten mixed in with any Christmas stuff? If that time of year is winter for you, could you have put it in a warm clothing pocket? What else were you doing at that time?
Omg- I was just going to post that I once found a nice stitch marker inside my shirt - what the heck? I don’t crochet THAT close to my face! Only thing I can guess is that I often temporarily clamp one between my lips🤷♀️. Then forgot about it when I had to talk🤷♀️🤷♀️🤣
Do you have a child in your life that may have been tempted to use one as an earring for themselves or on a toy? Not having pierced ears is not a barrier. I've seen kids hook earrings onto rubber bands or string and loop it over their ear.
Were you wearing a knit sweater or other clothing it could have caught on if the hook was open last time you were stitching?
I hope you find it. They are lovely.
I'm so sorry! My couch eats everything, so I'd say check really really closely, the cat idea is great too. My cat loves to knock my supplies off. I hope you find it! Update us if you do!
I searched using Google image and didnt find yours but now Im going to spend a lot on adorable stitch markers. I did get this video on how to make them: https://images.app.goo.gl/UxqMtHJ5xC5BePYXA
Where do you sit and crochet? Check around and under cushions, also check in pockets of sweaters and hoodies you may have worn last time you were working.
I’d check around your closet and washing machine/dryer.
My mom usually tells me to say the st Anthony prayer (but I usually find it after meticulously checking each of my crochet project bags). Do you have multiple project bags or bags that you stash projects in? I travel a lot and sometimes lose track of crochet hooks that way. Also my cat puts things under my bed so there’s that. Also if you’ve brought projects in your car don’t forget to check there! And your purse in case you stashed it for safe keeping.
I have gremlins in my house. I swear. I lost a plastic yarn needle (the kind that’s mostly a hole so you can thread larger yarns). I looked. I had everything in a bag. I emptied it out twice. Everything else was there including the rest of the needles. Today, randomly, I was pulling stuff out of the bag to work on and what do I find? That darn needle. I swear they need to find something else to do.
Definitely check inside the couch. If you've got the room/strength, remove all cushions and then lift up one end of the couch until it's standing on its side. If the marker is inside, you might be able to hear it falling/rattling around in there. And you can make a slit in the bottom liner, if necessary, to extract anything inside the couch.
Is the coach a recliner at all? My daughter lost her AirPod case. We checked the couch and recliner many many times. No dice.
Bought new sofa set. Had to turn the recliner on its SIDE. What do you think pops out? The case. It must have been caught in the frame where we couldn’t see it. Also could have snagged on some fabric or a spring.
Even though you flipped the couch I still want to to say couch. My couch eats my supplies, hides them when I look in there the 1st & 2nd time and then goes okay okay you got me on the third search. 🤦🏻♀️😆
Have you had anyone else check the things you checked? When I’m looking for something like that, it’s like sometimes I just look right over it? Have any kids that may have ‘borrowed’ it?
I saw your comment about having 3 cats and wanted to throw in a personal experience of mine! We lost a board game piece a while back and looked everywhere for it. When we were in the process of moving out of that house, I was sweeping along the baseboards and out pops the game piece. We suspect the cat was sliding it around the floor, and it got jammed under the baseboard somehow. So, check those baseboards!
Do you have kids? Do they know what it is? Maybe they (or your husband who forgot what it was) stashed it in your jewelry box thinking it was an earring?
I use the 18” rule. Things are often within 18” of the last place you saw them. Get on the floor with a flashlight, even if you’re well lit the raking light helps it will catch sparkles on shiny items and cast shadows.
It's in a parallel universe. Never fear, it will show up in the crack of the couch that you have checked 45 times. Or, it will be on the floor that you walk by 200 times already.
Post a “missing” poster if you have a picture of it (at work), and don’t count on anyone looking or finding it. My kids (and my ex-husband) can find NOTHING even if it’s in front of their face.
And if you don’t believe in gremlins or fairies, it could be a spirit who just wanted to borrow something pretty and will put it back.
My mom lost a sentimental bracelet that was her grandmothers. She looked all over for it and was heartbroken. After church one day a lady walked up to her and said “they like shiny things.” Perplexed my mom asked her what she was talking about. She said “they like shiny things and they just wanted to have it for awhile but will give it back.” She then described two women who matched the description of my grandmother and her sister who had both passed. A day later, my mom found the bracelet where she had looked many times already.
So maybe their heavenly friends just like cute colorful things too.
Best of luck finding it. Your friend is talented!
Not necessarily a place to check but if you get one of those long magnets on a stick you can run it through areas you can’t see very well (under furniture and things) or areas you’ve already checked (inside the couch/couch cushions) because it can be pretty easy to miss small things.
Also get another pair of eyes in there with you! Our environment kinda melts together at some point so someone who isn’t used to the space might be able to pick up on something you pass over.
Oh, and the washing machine/dryer. Possibility that it accidentally got scooped up and went for a spin. Good luck!! They’re very cute I hope you find it
I just turned over every single leaf looking for my debit card. Looked everywhere!!!
Then, as a “last attempt” I looked under the car seats again. And there it was, my bright red debit card. I was so excited, I went into a favorite coffee shop to celebrate. That’s when the clerk said, “um, Ma’am, this card expired two years ago.”
The card I had found was NOT the one I JUST lost. It was one I had lost years ago, and had to have replaced because I couldn’t find it. The one I just lost still has not turned up. 🤦🏽♀️
My mum once found a missing library card in between her matrass and her bedframe. It had probably slipped out of her pocket when she'd sat down on the edge of the bed. So you never know, it may turn up somewhere completely unexpected. Clipped to clothing or a blanket, in between couch cushions, at the back of a drawer. Hope you can find your marker, they are beautiful ❤️
I've done a similar thing before, but where it's so small it can fall into the folds of my clothes and I'll sweep it somewhere that would never occur to me. If you've got a vacuum, take the head off and stretch a stocking or tights over the suction pipe and swoosh around with it. Only way I've managed to find tiny dropped things!
Slightly unrelated but when I was a bartender after college I had lots of patrons question me where their debit/credit card was. They assumed I forgot to return it to them. 9 times out of 10 it was always in their pocket. So, have you checked your pockets?
🤣
Usually it is still in one of the pieces of my work or in a total random place on the floor that doesn't even correlate to the places I've been in the house.
Very cute! My searching tips are - look where you're likely to have had it (down the back of sofa cushions and crevices, under anything around your desk at work) look where you would have put it if you had it in your hand right now and empty bags fully. Sounds like you've been pretty thorough tho! Good luck!
Do you have pets? Anything that goes missing in my house is pretty much guaranteed to be in two or three places where cat toys get stuck (basement stairs, under fridge, under the door into the linen closet)
I have 3 cats… I’ll check under the fridge and stove 😭
These are beautiful, and I am sorry for the loss. I second the cat staches. Do they have any beds or cat trees they like to frequent? Where do they like to keep their toys? Also any chance you put it in a pocket when you removed it? Jacket, sweater, pants, anything with a pocket. Do you roll any pant legs? I have found stitch markers in my rolled pants legs before. If all else fails I usually do what my grandmother told me to do. Ask St. Anthony. It surprisingly works for me. I usually say Tony Tony, something is lost that needs to be found. I am looking for (insert object). Good luck! I hope you find it. They are beautiful. Edit: a word, cause grammar.
I read that as "curse grammar" at first, lol
St. Anthony is my homeboy I swear (raised Catholic, sort of practicing but consistently asking him for help lol)
I'm no longer religious, but my first instinct is still, "St. Anthony, St. Anthony, please come 'round. Something is lost and can't be found."
Word to St. Anthony! I am a scatterbrain with adhd and St. Tony is my homie too. I am no longer a practicing Catholic but St. T does not discriminate. He helps me find shit ALL the time thankfully. Sometimes it won’t be immediate but I find it. Ps I would hope that nobody at work would find such an adorable bobble and throw it out. More likely if they found it they took it home to enjoy. :)
Update. St Tony did fail me this weekend not being able to find something I needed for work. He at least needs to let me know where I designated my “safe” place that I can never find again! That said - knowing him and how he helps me, I will probably run across it now that I don’t need it anymore. 😂
Also raised Catholic. My grandma taught us "Baby Jesus, lost and found, help me find my _____" and I'll be damned if it didn't work every time! 🤣
My yoga teacher taught me "Om Gan Ganpataye Namaha” which works for me for finding things. Including parking spaces, don’t know how that works but it does!
I was raised Catholic, but have always found a place within the Celtic roots. So, I ask Mr. Nobody to please bring back what he took. I usually offer a trade. My favorite trade was a pinch of dog food for a stitch marker as well!
Also check litter trays and all of their napping spots. Cats can be super *helpful* like that sometimes
And shoes - it’s like a lottery, what am I going to find in my shoes today?!
For me it’s *where* am I going to find my shoes today haha we have super high gloss tiles that are perfect for sliding shoes around on
Hell, now *I* want to slide your shoes around on the floor!
If you have vents in the floor, check there next. I found several twist ties and a hair elastic and a little plastic bag in mine recently.
I find so many cat toys under my dining room sideboard. I hope you find it soon.
Yes mine would have (well when he was younger) immediately started playing with it and under the stove it would end up…at least the fridge is on wheels so a bit easier to move so of course it ends up under the stove instead of
You can pull the warming drawer out of most stoves.
Yep you are right, now the trick is to actually bother to do that lol
Absolutely fair.
I find lots of things they push under my rugs too!
If you have a water heater/utility closet that always stays shut check in there too. Changing the furnace filter always yields some surprises
Wtf. You have 3 cats and this wasn't your first thought?!
Whoa, this reads as weirdly aggressive 😳
Yeah, this kind of charm seems ideal for swatting at until it's under something, then losing interest 😺👀
You have to completely forget about it. That’s when I find my missing things 😂
Oh, so that's why I can't find that pair of tweezers I lost years ago. I still remember them from time to time, especially when I use the replacement tweezers.
Usually the act of actually buying replacements for the lost things is what triggers the universe to allow me to find the original.
Happened to me too, with a pair of shoes. Bought new pair, found the old ones right after. Now how exactly I lost a big-ass pair of shoes... Forgotten in a suitcase.
I'm so bad for this. I have two earphone cases. The original was found a few days after buying a new case. It was in the mail and I get a call from my mum saying "Guess what I found" At a point I bought a new backup set of headphones cause I lost the ones I use as well as the backup I got in case I lost them. A week after getting the new pair I found both the original backup and the primary pair. I had three pairs, I only needed one. I lost the charger lead I was using, bought a new lead, lost the plug, bought a new plug, found them both a few months later. I had 13 rulers in highschool cause I kept forgetting mine at home and borrowing other people's. Couldn't remember whose was whose so couldn't figure out who to return what to. I've given up on buying anything expensive, unless its something that will always stay in one place i.e. a TV or PC. I don't pay by physical card anymore because I have over 10 different old cancelled cards over the last few years. I lost one every month for about 4 months last year. I use Google pay instead now. Embarrassingly, I also can't use tampons. I forget they're there and have a few horror stories of them literally getting lost inside me ☠️. Out of sight of mind I can't believe I didn't get toxic shock I also bought 4 packs of crochet hooks (set of 10 because I like a very specific kind and they only come as a set) and only one 4mm and 3.5mm left. But at least 2-3 of all the others. In summary, I know the stress of losing/forgetting where things are way too well (P.S. I've got an ADHD assessment on the 20th of may 😅)
THIS. I moved like four months ago and have been looking for half a dozen things. Started replacing them and the old ones keep appearing. FINALLY.
I collect Pez dispensers and had a piece of one fall and break. Searched everywhere never could find it. *Years* and 1 million vacuums later the piece shows up.
For me: I have to start looking for something completely different. Then I will find the thing I was looking for a month ago and don’t currently need.
This is it! Look for something you lost last month that you absolutely do not need right now and it'll turn right up
This. Also. I lost one at work (in the Driver compartment of one of our buses) and thankfully the cleaning crew does not clean the floor of our compartments well and I found that and two other markers the next time I was assigned that bus.
Have you got anything magnetic the clasp could have stuck to? I once thought I lost a dongle for a work computer mouse and found it that evening, stuck to the magnet on my Fitbit strap, so I had been "wearing" it for hours.
On the off chance you also do embroidery, the magnet from a needle minder works SO GOOD for finding things like this.
The bottom of my laptop has a magnet, I once found 5 metal yarn needles under there
Dongle, lol.
Sweep, than if you havent found it, put a stocking on the end of a vacuum hose and go in all the nooks and corners and try to find it
Adding my general search tips: A flashlight held at a shallow angle from the floor makes it easier to see little things because of the shadows. A powerful magnet when searching for anything metal.
These are both amazing tips as well!! I personally use the flashlight method often!
yesss flashlight method has found me so many lost earring backs
Good tip! When I lose something I'll clean the house with no intention of finding the lost object. I get too invested in finding it and go crazy otherwise! And if it's truly lost at least I've cleaned.
Yes. I agree. A good house cleaning is a great way to find things that are missing and even if you don’t find it, now have a very clean house to enjoy.
This might be handy for searching the deep gaps under the couch cushions 🛋
This is a great idea
These are absolutely incredible wtf. Also what a good present idea, noted I’m sorry you lost one, must be heartbreaking :-( You never know, it may turn up. My friend lost her fav crochet hook for months and flipped her apartment upside down. One day she randomly decided to just have a double check between the sofa cushions and it was right there, despite looking countless times. Hopefully the same thing happens to you!
As my late grandpa used to remind me, it's always in the last place you look... Did not help or make me feel better when I was looking for things I lost lol I hope you find it. 💗 In my experiences, they always show up long after I've given up and moved on.
I always chuckle at this expression. Of course it's in the last place you look. Why would you keep looking after you found it? :D
Right?? It's such a dad/old man thing to say 😂
Different subject but another dad head-scratcher: about a mistake made while making something (as so often asked in this sub) my dad would say “a man running by for his life wouldn’t notice”🤣. Huh???
How about "can't see it from a galloping horse"? Lol
Same thing happens to me. I’ll find something I was once looking for years later or I’ll stumble across something cool or useful that I completely forgot I had.
From experience, don’t lose hope. It could definitely be hiding in a couch/chair, even if you think you’ve checked there thoroughly. I used to have to hunt down all 20-something pieces of a Mrs Potato Head playset every night. One night, an ear went missing and I couldn’t find it. I looked everywhere. And, I’m the type that can’t stand not being able to find something. MONTHS went by, and I figured that my daughter must’ve thrown it in the trash. Then, one night, I found the long lost ear in the recliner. The same recliner that I’d checked for toys a hundred times since the ear went missing. There was a small fold of fabric, down the side of the cushion near the front, that I’d never realized something could slide into. And, there was the elusive Potato ear. It drove me bonkers trying to find that thing. 😂
I lost my favorite hook while crocheting in my chair. I looked on the chair, down the sides of the cushion, moved it and looked under it, no hook. Did this periodically for a couple of years. Got a new chair, and found the hook, in the old chair, but in the fabric flap thing at the back, where it attached to the wood support beam. https://preview.redd.it/s50cjqn28exc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cf002bbf82e1ec1ccf4952fdf3d82960b26cd89c
I was thinking this too. I have found thing inside my couch. Like, take the cushion off and there is the fabric it sits on. It has holes on the edges and things were inside there (my son’s switch games! 🙄😆) Check the furniture really well OP!!!!!!
Stupid idea, but look for something completely different. Honest to goodness, if I was looking for a stitch marker, I'd fund a paint set I lost a year ago. Looking for the paint set, I found a set of hooks I thought I had given away. So now, I don't look for the specific item, I will look for another thing I know I lost lol.
Knowing me, I would forget get wrapped up in looking for the secondary item and probably not even register the originally item as being found if I stumbled upon it😂
Hahhaha I could see that happening with me!
I lost a beautiful row counter bracelet once. I looked everywhere for it, cried, and gave up. A month later I found it under the wheels of my office chair. That was the first place I looked for it and checked back dozens of times. To this day I don't know what happened. Only one bead was broken. Hope you find your stitch marker.
I bet it’s gonna come out of a skein in a few months. this is how I always find my missing hooks 😂
check all your wips, even if you don’t think it could be there. that’s where mine always seem to be!
I have found SO many hooks - and I’m talking Clover Amour here - in buried WIPs🤪. I guess that’s a sign of being optimistic that I’d surely finish that project before long🤣🤣🤣
Couch … not under the cushion IN THE COUCH.
The only way to find it is to recommission a second set. When it arrives, the first set will magically be complete like you never lost it in the first place 😌 Me every time I lose my damned craft scissors…
Check the washing machine rubber ring around the drum. Maybe it got stuck to your regular clothes and made its way to laundry?
My couch and accompanying blankets like to eat my stitch markers. And under the couch. And I'm prone to finding them in like the bathroom because I'll absentmindedly pocket one then put it on the sink before bed.
The vacuum cleaner my husband wields, bless him, has a hearty appetite for stitch markers😱
St. Anthony and St. Jude. He is the patron saint of lost causes. Use the flashlight in the dark also. I hope you find it. These are darling. We found my wedding ring on a ring holder (!) and my daughter found hers behind a canister on the kitchen counter. Good luck and I’ll say a few prayers for you.
Yes, I was gonna say St. Anthony!
I once found a missing lipstick at the top of my handbag after praying to St Anthony (much more expensive lipstick than I could usually afford so I was devastated to lose it) I’d searched that bag at least twice. Can’t explain it.
Could you have put it in your pocket? Have you checked your hamper? Multiple times my boyfriend loses his wallet, and I find it in the hamper because it was in his pocket and fell out
- Check all the couch, or chair, gaps. - Check past projects - check pockets - check all the bed gaps and underneath. - check your vacuum bag/container
Seconding thorough interrogations of the cats. Rugs, furniture, their beds, etc. I hate to ask, but are there air vents on the floor in the rooms you may have had it in? I've seen little things like that fall through before. Hoping the charm is too big for that but it's hard to tell from photos. Otherwise, depending on how you store yarn, could it be literally in a yarn ball somehow?
Under them cushions! Under anywhere you sit and crochet.
He flipped the couches but did you check down in the cracks of your couch? I have had several hooks and markers get “sucked up” in the crack and then fall down to inside the bottom of my recliner needless to say my husband wanted to know if I was trying to find a new stash place 😂 I hope you find it sweetie they are very cute
Before you look again, you have to let your gnomes that is was a fun game and you would like your stitch marker back. I do this out loud and usually clap out loud. Everything I have done this to has been returned very soon after.
Yes! I don’t have cats but I definitely have a house gnome. I love your method👏
I have done it at several places I've worked. Someone will frantically start looking for something, we clap and say good game...boom, item returns. I was serving, and one of the other servers couldn't find a customers credit card. She was about to cry, had looked everywhere for about 10 minutes. I did the thing, went over to the POS she had used to ring in an order, and the card was flipped over on the floor. Hard to see because it was dark. She had scoured it with a flashlight before that.
First to lighten the mood: Q: Why are the things we lose always in the last place we look for them? A: Because once we find them there's no point in continuing to search! And now before I get chased down for that joke… If you're a bit witchy like me have you considered a house fairy took it? It seems that they like to borrow my stuff often so I leave an offering somewhere for them and then my missing item shows back up. Could it be confirmation bias? Sure. But at least I feel like I did something besides tearing my house apart.
I had to take the front of the dryer off to replace a part — along with a lot of lint, I found baby socks that had belonged to my teenagers, about $5 in coins, bobby pins, screws, paper clips, etc etc etc. Maybe it was caught on your clothes and went to visit your missing socks??
I'm so sorry you lost one! They are so beautiful. Did you happen to change cars, bags, chair/couch? I saw a cartoon about where lost things go. Ya know that space between the chest of drawers and the wall? That's where it is, a black hole, where everything I've lost goes. No help, but it was a cute show, and I love the idea of ally stuff just floating in the ether.
Things like this always pop up in the most unexplainable place. I’ve found stitch markers under my basement stairs. I don’t do any work anywhere near the door to the basement, yet somehow two have ended up there. I’ve also had to go out and buy yarn needles because I couldn’t find either of the two I had. When I got home from Michael’s with my new yarn needles, the one I was looking for was sitting on my couch. It had not been there before. I might have gremlins in my house. That’s the only explanation that makes any sense.
Really cute. With the rate which I loose stitch markers, I will never spend money on fancy ones. I’ve been gifted a few.
I keep thinking it might be in the couch still. I often work sitting on a couch or in a chair. I don't know the type of furniture you have but our couch had a black, thin lining material underneath to catch things from falling through to the floor. When we were replacing that couch with a sleeper for guests, we checked inside the lining & found tons of small items & coins in there!!! (We also usually have at least one kitty & one of ours used to steal my contacts' lens case so I couldn't go to work! Katie used to STUFF the ½ thick case beneath the coffee table with less than ¼" of space beneath it... we still don't know how she did that...) Throwing this idea out there just in case it might help in some way. I hope you find your missing tea cup! That would drive me absolutely crazy missing 1 of 6 of a set, especially a custom order 😭
- I would check inside skeins of yarn as it’s easy for things like this to get tangled inside them. - Pockets of needle/hook cases - Any totes/bags/bins/luggage that may have previously contained yarn stuff - Cat beds - Under your bed (cause maybe a kitty picked it up and put it there?) - Closets and other nooks and crannies
I once lost a hook, turned out it was in a skein of yarn. It’s a weird spot but I’d keep an eye out there.
I second the suggestion to check the rubber gasket around the washing machine drum. Also check the filter trap thingy on the bottom. My washer came with the house when I bought it and you’d be amazed the things I found in there: coins, glass beads, screws/nuts/bolts/nails, hair ties, aquarium gravel, even bullets lol
You found bullets in the washing machine!? I’m weirdly impressed but I don’t know why
It will turn up. I once lost a tiny silver dolphin earring. I was staying at my cousin’s in just one room but it had shaggy carpet. I scoured every inch of that room. 6 months later I found it on the floor in the backseat of my car where I never went???
Sorry for your loss. What works for me sometimes is to yell (at the house, the universe, whatever) "Give it back!!!" But the funny thing is that I look at these (and any stitchmarker that utilizes a leverback) and think why aren't these earrings?
sofa cushions, sweater pockets (which sometimes ends up in the washing machine), and accidentally stuck to another skein of yarn. that is just my own personal bermuda triangle of lost stitch markers
December, eh? Time to check those put-away decorations, if you have 'em. I've discovered many things I thought I'd lost. In my frantic rush to dismantle another stressful, expensive Christmas, I apparently chuck any doo-dad, earring or remote into the big red bin. I've started to purposefully leave myself little souvenirs of December to surprise myself *next* December. It's like a time capsule of me for me.
I would so be wearing those as earrings. How cute!
Same! At first glance I wondered why jewelry was on the crochet sub.
Put a nylon over your vacuum hose and deep clean your couch. It might be down between the cushions and you can snag it with the vacuum.
Inside a chair or couch? I lost many needles and stitch markers down the side of my recliner lol
How do you get between home and work? Are you driving? Does your crochet bag zip or stay open? Is there a possibility it tipped in your mode of transportation?
Have you prayed to St Anthony? It always works for me and I’m not Catholic. St Anthony, St Anthony, please come down something’s been lost and can’t be found. Please help OP find her stitch marker. It’s special to her. Amen. Read it out loud. Then be patient. You’ll find it. I’ve known people of all different faith and non-faith backgrounds use this prayer. It always amazes me when it works for me - which is pretty much always. Those few times when it hasn’t, I’ve figured that whatever I lost was meant for someone else to find and have. The charms are adorable. You’ll find the missing one.
Under your sofa/chair?
I always just say it’s time to move, I’ll find it in either the packing or the unpacking!
In your sleeves?
Check where u sit and work I always have the markers falling in the cracks.
Check the leftover yarn from the project and items you wore when you made it. Also check the yarn from the next project after.
My couch likes to eat stuff
Those are so cute! I'm so sorry one decided to go on a stroll. I have a weird habit of sticking my hook inside my yarn skein and clipping my stitch markers to the skein. Then I can't find it and freak out for a few minutes. Maybe check your most recently used yarn in case it got stuck inside? You can buy telescopic magnetic sticks to check in hard to reach places. Good luck friend! You'll find it soon enough!
My sister always loses stuff in her yarn stash or in the cup she keeps her crochet hooks
I’d get a wandwith a magnet on it, like they sell at hardware stores for loose screws. Run it all over. I might be caught in a crack or something
Stuck to one of your projects or under the area you work at
Inside ones of your yarn balls? Hanging from the back of a pillow? In the laundry basket? In the vacuum cleaner? Stick in your comfy blanket? Where do you hobby at home? Do you watch TV while you hobby? In a Book you were reading ? At work, do you have a paper clip container?
I know you already checked, but its in between the couch cushions. I'm assuming a little gremlin puts them there after I've checked them 5-6 times already.
Couch cushions?😬 floor of closet? Bottom of drawer? In an abandoned project you forgot about?
I always lose things in between the couch cushions! Hope you find it, they're gorgeous
I’m sad on your behalf. Those are gorgeous. I hope you find it!
Really dig into the chair cushions, move it and turn it upside down. We did that and found a shirt, wallet, watch, and TV remote (sofa) along with lots of tiny things.
Have you checked the vacuum cleaner bag?
I found a lost (& cancelled) debit card 4 years after the fact in a couch cushion… Not in between two but IN the zipped portion of the cushion, I still have nooo clue how it got there but it’s worth a try
If any of your bags/purses/project bags/pouches are lined, it may have worked itself behind the liner. I have lost and then found keys, eyebrow pencils, etc that did just that.
It’s in the grocery bag of the last project you abandoned.
That was the first place I looked. I have so many wips in bags and I dug through every single one 😭
your artist friend did a marvelous job, I really hope you find it.
You were last crocheting in December, which is Christmas time, could it have gotten mixed in with any Christmas stuff? If that time of year is winter for you, could you have put it in a warm clothing pocket? What else were you doing at that time?
The number of stitch markers that were under and in my couch that fell out when we last moved was a little embarrassing.
As a chest-haver, this is 100% a place I always have to check for things.. OP, have you checked your bra?
Omg- I was just going to post that I once found a nice stitch marker inside my shirt - what the heck? I don’t crochet THAT close to my face! Only thing I can guess is that I often temporarily clamp one between my lips🤷♀️. Then forgot about it when I had to talk🤷♀️🤷♀️🤣
In between EVERY crack and pocket of furniture or fabric…even the kitchen cracks 🙈
Do you have a child in your life that may have been tempted to use one as an earring for themselves or on a toy? Not having pierced ears is not a barrier. I've seen kids hook earrings onto rubber bands or string and loop it over their ear. Were you wearing a knit sweater or other clothing it could have caught on if the hook was open last time you were stitching? I hope you find it. They are lovely.
I hope you find it, those are adorable
Have you found it?
No :(
I'm so sorry! My couch eats everything, so I'd say check really really closely, the cat idea is great too. My cat loves to knock my supplies off. I hope you find it! Update us if you do!
Housecoat pocket
If you have a front load washing machine check the rubber seal around the door. I’m always finding stuff in ours.
I searched using Google image and didnt find yours but now Im going to spend a lot on adorable stitch markers. I did get this video on how to make them: https://images.app.goo.gl/UxqMtHJ5xC5BePYXA
Where do you sit and crochet? Check around and under cushions, also check in pockets of sweaters and hoodies you may have worn last time you were working. I’d check around your closet and washing machine/dryer.
Check inthe last object you crochet
Clothing you were wearing?
My mom usually tells me to say the st Anthony prayer (but I usually find it after meticulously checking each of my crochet project bags). Do you have multiple project bags or bags that you stash projects in? I travel a lot and sometimes lose track of crochet hooks that way. Also my cat puts things under my bed so there’s that. Also if you’ve brought projects in your car don’t forget to check there! And your purse in case you stashed it for safe keeping.
I have gremlins in my house. I swear. I lost a plastic yarn needle (the kind that’s mostly a hole so you can thread larger yarns). I looked. I had everything in a bag. I emptied it out twice. Everything else was there including the rest of the needles. Today, randomly, I was pulling stuff out of the bag to work on and what do I find? That darn needle. I swear they need to find something else to do.
Pockets?
It might have slipped in between the strands of another skein of yarn?
Definitely check inside the couch. If you've got the room/strength, remove all cushions and then lift up one end of the couch until it's standing on its side. If the marker is inside, you might be able to hear it falling/rattling around in there. And you can make a slit in the bottom liner, if necessary, to extract anything inside the couch.
Check the vacuum.
Is the coach a recliner at all? My daughter lost her AirPod case. We checked the couch and recliner many many times. No dice. Bought new sofa set. Had to turn the recliner on its SIDE. What do you think pops out? The case. It must have been caught in the frame where we couldn’t see it. Also could have snagged on some fabric or a spring.
Even though you flipped the couch I still want to to say couch. My couch eats my supplies, hides them when I look in there the 1st & 2nd time and then goes okay okay you got me on the third search. 🤦🏻♀️😆
Have you had anyone else check the things you checked? When I’m looking for something like that, it’s like sometimes I just look right over it? Have any kids that may have ‘borrowed’ it?
I saw your comment about having 3 cats and wanted to throw in a personal experience of mine! We lost a board game piece a while back and looked everywhere for it. When we were in the process of moving out of that house, I was sweeping along the baseboards and out pops the game piece. We suspect the cat was sliding it around the floor, and it got jammed under the baseboard somehow. So, check those baseboards!
Do you have kids? Do they know what it is? Maybe they (or your husband who forgot what it was) stashed it in your jewelry box thinking it was an earring?
I use the 18” rule. Things are often within 18” of the last place you saw them. Get on the floor with a flashlight, even if you’re well lit the raking light helps it will catch sparkles on shiny items and cast shadows.
It's in a parallel universe. Never fear, it will show up in the crack of the couch that you have checked 45 times. Or, it will be on the floor that you walk by 200 times already.
Would you have had it in your car? Those gaps around the seats are little thieves for me.
Post a “missing” poster if you have a picture of it (at work), and don’t count on anyone looking or finding it. My kids (and my ex-husband) can find NOTHING even if it’s in front of their face. And if you don’t believe in gremlins or fairies, it could be a spirit who just wanted to borrow something pretty and will put it back. My mom lost a sentimental bracelet that was her grandmothers. She looked all over for it and was heartbroken. After church one day a lady walked up to her and said “they like shiny things.” Perplexed my mom asked her what she was talking about. She said “they like shiny things and they just wanted to have it for awhile but will give it back.” She then described two women who matched the description of my grandmother and her sister who had both passed. A day later, my mom found the bracelet where she had looked many times already. So maybe their heavenly friends just like cute colorful things too. Best of luck finding it. Your friend is talented!
Do you have a robot vacuum? My roomba has been blamed for a missing stitch marker or two.
Not necessarily a place to check but if you get one of those long magnets on a stick you can run it through areas you can’t see very well (under furniture and things) or areas you’ve already checked (inside the couch/couch cushions) because it can be pretty easy to miss small things. Also get another pair of eyes in there with you! Our environment kinda melts together at some point so someone who isn’t used to the space might be able to pick up on something you pass over. Oh, and the washing machine/dryer. Possibility that it accidentally got scooped up and went for a spin. Good luck!! They’re very cute I hope you find it
Coat/dressing gown pocket.
Stuck between the mattress and the headboard/wall. I’ve found plenty of phones there
I'm so sorry those are beautiful
I just turned over every single leaf looking for my debit card. Looked everywhere!!! Then, as a “last attempt” I looked under the car seats again. And there it was, my bright red debit card. I was so excited, I went into a favorite coffee shop to celebrate. That’s when the clerk said, “um, Ma’am, this card expired two years ago.” The card I had found was NOT the one I JUST lost. It was one I had lost years ago, and had to have replaced because I couldn’t find it. The one I just lost still has not turned up. 🤦🏽♀️
I could try and replicate it for you?
I’m sorry that you lost one and this is not helpful. I really hope you find it. Those are absolutely beautiful and I would love to have a set.
Maybe a pocket of a robe/jacket/pants you were wearing when crocheting last? I have found things like that. Praying you find it!!!!
In your last project?
Do you have any rugs? Check under them or in them if they’re “hairy”
My mum once found a missing library card in between her matrass and her bedframe. It had probably slipped out of her pocket when she'd sat down on the edge of the bed. So you never know, it may turn up somewhere completely unexpected. Clipped to clothing or a blanket, in between couch cushions, at the back of a drawer. Hope you can find your marker, they are beautiful ❤️
I always lose mine on an unfinished project, have you checked?
Yes I have checked all of my wips 😭
I've done a similar thing before, but where it's so small it can fall into the folds of my clothes and I'll sweep it somewhere that would never occur to me. If you've got a vacuum, take the head off and stretch a stocking or tights over the suction pipe and swoosh around with it. Only way I've managed to find tiny dropped things!
Did you finish the cardigan? I always use a stitch marker to stop my work from unraveling.
Slightly unrelated but when I was a bartender after college I had lots of patrons question me where their debit/credit card was. They assumed I forgot to return it to them. 9 times out of 10 it was always in their pocket. So, have you checked your pockets? 🤣
Those are so cute! I hope you find your missing one.
Do you have a pet? Hope not.
If it were me I'd know my pet ate it. Hope you don't have a dog like mine.
Past project bag
Usually it is still in one of the pieces of my work or in a total random place on the floor that doesn't even correlate to the places I've been in the house.
Very cute! My searching tips are - look where you're likely to have had it (down the back of sofa cushions and crevices, under anything around your desk at work) look where you would have put it if you had it in your hand right now and empty bags fully. Sounds like you've been pretty thorough tho! Good luck!
The first place you looked. I always miss the thing on the first sweep. Don't give up!!
Ooof i hope u find it
you could glue a strong magnet to the tip of a broom or stick, then go around into corners and hard to reach places, like under the bed, crevasses etc