Last year I stitched something and then LOST it!

I really like that project!! What a great thing to give a child, she can use it all her life. It's cute now. As a teenager it'll give her attitude and as an adult it'll show her significant other who's boss! Glad you found both components one way or another, I know how that is and hate it when that happens with my jewelry projects.

Many times I lose things and then I find them when I´m not looking for them. The best happens when you find things at the right time as it happened to you. I just had such an experience, but with 20 years of difference. I had lost some fabric I had bought 20 years ago to make a dress for my first granddaughter. My granddaughter grew and I forgot about it. A month ago, I went to my daughter´s house to sew with her for her baby daughter and remembered that I had seen some old fabrics inside a drawer. I checked them and took them. My daughter was specially attracted to one of them. And suddenly I realised that that was the piece that I had bought for her first baby, over 20 years ago.

Very nice. Now don't lose it again before you give it to the princess.

I'm so glad that you found it. You were so sweet to do that for her. I looked at the photo & that is so pretty. You are very talented. I'm sure she will love it.

That is miraculous almost! So glad to hear you found it! It's amazing how some lost items are found in perfect timing.

That's fantastic that you found it. You did a great job on it, it looks really good. Can't beat the timing either.

Well at least you found it and that is a great thing

I am glad that you found it. I have had some similar things happen to me too. It is refreshing when you finally find it.

It sound like you found it just in time! I am glad it reappeared. Now give it to her before you lose it again. Lol

I'm so glad you found the project and finally got it framed. It looks good in the picture whether it is red or pink. I take it you got the gift to the great-niece?

Hehehe I'm SOOOOOO glad to know that things like this don't just happen to me!!! I'm also happy to hear that you finally got both the project and the frame together, even if it is a second frame. Also, to find the lost project on the first birthday of the roomie's grand-niece is awesome! Kinda reminds me of something I just bought recently: a tiny baby onsie with "I don't need Santa, I have Grandma!" embroidered on it. I found it at Goodwill about a month ago and thought it was so cute I had to buy it. (It was still in it's original package, never used.) Then, two weeks later, I found out I was going to BE the Grandma! It fell into place, very much like your cross-stitch project. It's precious, by the way. So right for a little princess' wall. And, I love the little touch of the castle you glued to the frame. Adorable!!!

That sounds like the things that happen at my house. I have frequently had to go out and buy something that I knew for sure I already had if I could only remember where I had put it.

Sometimes things are working out perfectly even when we think it's all falling apart..lol.

That is beautiful! I have done that a bunch of times. I used to get presents for people early when I could find them on sale or if I knew that they would be difficult to find during the holiday season. Then, I would put them away in a place where I thought that they would be "safe" until they were needed. Unfortunately, I tended to make them so "safe" that even I couldn't find them, although I suspect that I had a little "help" from my ex when he was looking for something, because he had a tendency to rifle through things and then not put them back or put them back in the wrong places. This did work to my advantage a few times, though, because I would find the gift and say "oh yeah, now I don't have to buy anything for that person, because I already got this for them".

Good grief girl, you remind me of me. I always love "finding" things. Or finishing things. Those other two frames will show up at some point just when you need them most.

Sometimes they do work out! Hooray!

Your story sounds like something that might have happened at my house. I like your needle work. The little girl will love it. The year's delay is good, as the child is better able to appreciate it than the infant she was when you made it.

Welcome to my world LOL I have 3 projects going so I have a floss box for each wound on bobbins. I have needles and scissors in each box so I don't have to steal from each one. I have a book case and one shelf holds my pattern, floss box with name of project on lid (masking tape) and the material is in the plasic liner of the pattern. If I did not keep everything together I would go totally insane. But it works. that way when I want to work on it, I can just pull out whatever one I want to work on. Sure glad you found the piece in time. Hobby Lobby called me on mine Friday and I told her I was not driving in this traffic til after the 1st. I will go in on the 2nd to get the April Birthstone. I have seen so many wrecks in the last 2 weeks I don't want to be another traffic accident statistic. We have 3 to 4 states that come here every weekend. So between our state and battling the way others drive in their states you just know when to stay off the road LOL Anyway hope your great neice loves her piece.