Apparently I threaded the needle with the 1434 floss on Monday and hadn’t actually used the skein since then.
I really had looked everywhere I could imagine that floss might be and it was nowhere. This morning I took the stack of charts I had out yesterday, looked through all those to make sure it hadn’t been accidentally picked up with some of that, even though it was in a bag and on a ring. Nope . . not there.
Just a while ago, I walked past the loveseat and saw something shiny. There, in the corner kinda behind the throw pillows . .
Then I noticed the little hole had torn and that’s how it had come loose from the ring with all the other floss for this project.
Here’s my theory: The bag tore so it got separated from the rest of the floss. It may have been in my chair, maybe stuck to myself when I got up, fell off as I was walking away and I picked it up and tossed it in the loveseat as I was vacuuming yesterday morning. I will pick up anything I see on the floor as I’m vacuuming – doll shoes, safety pin, strands of floss I don’t want to get wrapped up in the vacuum cleaner – and toss them in the closest chair/sofa til I’m done vacuuming. Once I got done vacuuming, I must have got sidetracked and totally forgot about it.
I still think I would have noticed that bag of floss being separated from the others and not tossed it back there but I doubt Vince would have picked it up so I had to be the one who did it.
The floss is found, the mysterious disappearance is somewhat solved. The good news is that before I went to bed last night, I ordered another skein and because a skein of floss cannot travel alone, I ordered a chart – Memorial Day. And, because I have been wanting to try Sulky 12 weight thread for cross stitching, and there was a thread pack with Sulky thread, I ordered that too so . . it was a good thing I temporarily lost the 1434 floss, right?
I need to order some of those little stick on “hole” reinforcements like we used to use when paper tore out of our three ring binders. The floss bags are pretty wimpy and I don’t want this to happen again.
Liz says
Duct tape – the cure for everything! I am assuming that you don’t take the bags off the ring and only open a small section of the bag to get the floss out. The tape now comes in different colors and sizes.
Strapping/shipping tape is another option that you might have around the house.
I like the Memorial Day pattern.
Judy Laquidara says
I do take the bags off the ring at some point. Some colors, I’ll only use a small amount and then when this project is done, I’ll put the floss/bags into a bin in numerical order so when I need them for another project, they’ll go onto a different ring.
Don’t forget where my husband worked. We have more tape around here than we do Mason jars! I prefer the little reinforcment circles. They’re easy to use and don’t take up any room to store in the drawer next to my stitching chair.
Stephani in N. TX says
How funny. You just reminded me that the 3M salesman always had a goody bag for the engineers at Christmas which of course came home with my husband. Plenty of tape and clothing lint rollers as I recall.
Judy Laquidara says
Oh, my . . lint rollers! I have a lifetime supply of lint rollers, little peel off sheets, little packages of sticky sheets and we both still walk around with dog and cat hair and threads all over us. Post-it Notes! Addie can sit and create all day with colored Post-it Notes but she always takes them all apart, restacks them neatly so she doesn’t waste them. I want to say . . throw them away because we’ll never use all that we have. Vince was doing woodworking when we lived in MO before and he was able to get N95 masks at the scrap sales. We sent several big boxes of those to the hospitals in Lake Charles at the beginning of the pandemic. And tape! I will say we probably used most of our packing trip with this move but I hope we never need it again.
Nelle Coursey says
You don’t think it could have fallen off and Boots found it and hid it from you, do you?