My fabric swatch book from a trip to Tokyo three years ago just tried to eat my keys

I was digging through my old design stuff last night looking for a specific silk sample, the kind with that weird iridescent finish they do in Kyoto. I pulled out this massive binder from a market trip in 2021, and the whole thing just exploded. Hundreds of tiny fabric squares went flying everywhere, like a rainbow bomb went off in my living room. I spent the next hour on my hands and knees, picking wool tweed off the couch and trying to separate chiffon from corduroy. The worst part was finding my car keys stuck to a piece of super sticky fusible interfacing I'd totally forgotten was in there. Has anyone else had their past projects literally attack them? What's the most chaotic material you've ever worked with?

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the_piper1d ago

Fusible interfacing is the actual worst. Had a whole roll unstick itself in my trunk once, fused to an old grocery receipt and some loose change. Couldn't peel the quarters off. My own chaos story involved a jar of glitter that never fully sealed. Found sparkles in my toolbox two years later.

angela_grant21h ago

Honestly @the_piper, your story makes me feel better about my own mess. I once tried to use fusible interfacing on a costume and somehow glued the whole project to my ironing board cover. Tbh I had to cut the fabric free and just buy a new cover, it was a lost cause. That stuff has a mind of its own when it gets warm. Your glitter story is the same kind of forever chaos, it just migrates and sets up a sparkly home where you least expect it. I'm convinced these craft supplies are just plotting against us.