anotheranon | pattern eating?

For some reason, yesterday evening I took it into my head to go through my pattern collection - I remembered a Vogue hat pattern I'd picked up some time ago and wondered if I had enough fabric to make one up.

Three (closed, plastic) crates of patterns later - no hat pattern found. Also missing a Montana jacket I was considering doing a draft of, and a couple of other things I could swear I had a couple of months ago. And interestingly, duplicates of the oddest things....

I'm going to take another look around tomorrow night but I'm rather bewildered, as usually I toss new finds into the boxes, never to be removed again until I'm intending to make them (??)

Also fearing I'm coming off as a rude bitch to one and all because I failed to check my Yahoo account in a timely manner and didn't get back to a couple of folks for over a week - bad me! :( You know who you are, and I apologize sincerely. I'll try and check more often, and be advised that Gmail is my choice account of late (mm, threaded conversation).

Meanwhile I'm VERY tired and hope to sleep well tonight!