Any ideas on how to retrieve deleted downloads?

I thought I was just clearing a list and the downloads would stay in their folders, but nooooo…they’re gone. It wasn’t a ton of them, probably 15 or so, but most were patterns for beading that I paid for. I’ve fiddled around for about an hour now with no luck. I thought about system restore, but that makes me nervous. Any ideas on where to find them or how to get them back? They’re not in the recycle bin.