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Idea #1: Small red heart-shaped bag, zipped around the edge similar to the Purlbee heart shaped pouch tutorial except I was thinking I'd make them from red felt and embroider them. Mine will also be smaller and the "handle" section will be a small loop so they can be attached to something else. This is what I wanted the red zipper for.

Idea #2: Pants! I saw these super funky black cord pants on Etsy while looking for something else and then later that night had a brainwave. I have some pairs of lovely wonderful comfy black jeans which are just a bit too narrow for me. I also have a glorious wonderful colourful quilt made by my aunty many years ago, and it's so old it's falling apart. I can split the outside side seams on the black jeans and add a strip made of patches from the quilt fabric. Bingo: New use for quilt, newly comfy jeans. Very enthused by this idea.

And a poll ... once I had the pants idea I thought I'd sit down and cut some of the fabric out to use for that so I went to find my seam ripper.... and I can't. My seam rippers disappear with frightening regularity ... somewhere in my house there is a secret seam ripper stash with twenty of those little guys all gloating about getting out of work!

I have this idea that every regular crafter has at least one thing they regularly lose ... what's yours?

Poll #8980 What Craft Tool Do You Lose?

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seam ripper
10 (45.5%)

knitting needles
1 (4.5%)

crochet hooks
3 (13.6%)

scissors
15 (68.2%)

sewing needles
11 (50.0%)

entire project! It takes talent...
6 (27.3%)

I never lose anything, I'm totally 100% organised!
0 (0.0%)

I lose something else which I will tell you about in the comments
11 (50.0%)

TICKYBOX
11 (50.0%)