The Wedding Dress - Disaster #1

I am naming this Disaster #1 because I expect with as difficult of a project as a wedding dress is combined with my lack of attention and my bull-in-a-china-shop sewing philosophy this will not be the last disaster! I decided that the 4 longer strips of boning needed to be heated again and straightened a little better. After putting them in a pot of boiling water, I went to work on my current quilt project. An hour later I smelled burning plastic.

The pot is ruined. I have to buy more boning. Would you call this a sewing disaster, cooking disaster or both?

This was not Happy Anything!