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Posted on: 11/24/06 11:05 PM ET
SoI made a pair of Euro pants this summer and just loved them. Accidentally shrunk them because I completely forgot to prewash the fabric, but they were otherwise great and I was looking forward to making a pair that would stay the right size. Finally finished making a wise man costume and was ready to get started...but found the pattern envelope and it contains the instructions, the pattern back piece from view B, and nothing else. ARRGH!

I don't think I could have thrown it away, so I carefully opened and looked at several other pants patterns to see if I had gotten the pieces mixed up somehow. Half an hour later I had checked all the pants and run out of patience. So exasperating! Does this sort of thing happen to anyone else? And why couldn't it have been a $3.97 New Look instead of a $16 Loes Hinse?

I'm sure it's hiding in a baby quilt envelope or something and lauqhing at me.
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Posted on: 11/24/06 11:17 PM ET
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I feel your pain. It's never the cheap patterns it happens with either!! What's worse, the missing pattern always turns up after you've purchased the replacement pattern.
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Posted on: 11/24/06 11:26 PM ET
It's not just you. Maybe it IS poltergiests. That would make me feel better than thinking I am as disorganized as I sometimes discover I am even when I think I am being especially careful.
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Posted on: 11/24/06 11:53 PM ET
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After tearing my sewing room totally apart, I usually find my lost pattern with the new fabric I intended to use when I started looking for the pattern!

Try looking with the fabric you're going to make the pants out of.
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Posted on: 11/25/06 6:25 AM ET
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I feel your pain. My Loes Hinse cowl top pattern went missing a while back. I made that pattern at least half a dozen times and was looking forward to many more. Grrrrr........
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Re: Ive lost yet another pattern (posted on 11/25/06 7:27 AM ET)
I haven't lost any patterns yet, but I recently lost an eighteen inch sewing ruler. I can understand misplacing a six inch ruler, but how could I lose an eighteen inch ruler? I hadn't ever taken it out of the house.
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Posted on: 11/25/06 8:00 AM ET
Been there done that.. I replaced my missing pattern only to have the orginal show up after words and it was not a cheap one.

  
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Posted on: 11/25/06 8:05 AM ET
How about "losing" a 24 inch ruler when my son broke it while beating his big brother with it? I can't find another anywhere, except online, at Greenberg and Hammer. Loved that thing!
  
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Posted on: 11/25/06 8:11 AM ET
When you catch that poltergeist see if it has my rotary cutter.
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Posted on: 11/25/06 9:01 AM ET
I have a hem gauge poltergeist in my house, but not a pattern one. How can a person own 3 hem gauges and only every find one at any given moment in time?

It would definitely more frustrating to have the pattern poltergeist lurking around though.
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