Embroidery

After searching the whole house, including the loft, I finally have to come to terms with the fact that I have lost my embroidery stuff.
I am planning to animate an embroidery while I am doing it- this was the plan last summer and I never did it, so I thought I'd do it now.
What a pain, to look so far and wide and deep. It has either accidentally moved out with a former resident, or possibly gone off to the charity shop by mistake in a carrier bag left by the front door.
Who knows?
It was an old pale blue vinyl Chipie skate bag, with a transfer of three over-coloured children on it, and it was full to brimming with embroidery hoops, my youngest offsprog's first embroidery of beautifully clumsy and colourful animals, spare canvas and a little tin I was given full of toffees when I was twelve with a picture (again in garish colours) of a twee little girl in a hairband, and a canary.
There were stranded cottons in many shades of pink and brown and grey and white (I wanted the embroidery to look like an old photograph), and a random collection of needles.
It was a complete nuisance until it was in use, when it was a source of excitement and imagination, frustrating to lose when I have the time and motivation to get started!