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Has Anyone Ever

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Callistemon Mon 09-Aug-21 16:57:27

Knocked a full cup of tea into their knitting/crochet bag?
It seemed to tip in slow motion!

It's a lovely quilted knitting bag with wooden handles and spaces for patterns, needles, crochet hooks etc. It contained balls of yarn and some experimental crochet flower squares I'd been making.

I've washed everything by hand; bag, balls of yarn, squares
(luckily the patterns down the side pocket seemed dry), rinsed then spun them all dry in net bags in the washing machine.

Now they're sitting on towels drying slowly and I hope will be none the worse.

Callistemon Mon 09-Aug-21 19:23:43

I'll never forget the time when I spilt red wine down a cream top when standing by a swimming pool chatting to DH's boss before dinner.
Quick as a flash he threw his glass of white wine over my top!
At least he didn't push me into the swimming pool.

Whiff Tue 10-Aug-21 07:15:28

I knocked a full mug of hot blackcurrant and blueberry fruit tea over my cross stitch and carpet. Said a few rude words. Thank goodness for varnish stick for the cross stitch and Dr Beckman for my pale grey carpet. Both look as good as new. .

Whiff Tue 10-Aug-21 07:19:40

Callistemom that was quick thinking of him. Bet he's either done that before or had it done to him. Mind you does make me think of wet tee shirt competition ?.

Hetty58 Tue 10-Aug-21 08:16:54

Callistemon, my little dog kept digging about in my knitting bag (the one in the corner, with squares and many knitted, yet unfinished items - so quite a size).

Eventually, I thought she must have buried a treat in there - so tipped it all out. I found a small piece of leather with fur attached - stripey fur!

I can only imagine it was a part of the remains of a long dead cat. So, in the bin, back to square one (literally) and, lesson learned, now it's all stored in an ottoman!

Callistemon Tue 10-Aug-21 10:28:54

Whiff

Callistemom that was quick thinking of him. Bet he's either done that before or had it done to him. Mind you does make me think of wet tee shirt competition ?.

grin

Hetty58 shock

maddyone Tue 10-Aug-21 10:38:08

Like Grandmajean I laughed. I shouldn’t laugh but your description did sound funny. Anyway the answer to your question is a resounding no, I’ve never tipped a cup of tea, full or otherwise, into my knitting bag. That could of course be because I don’t own a knitting bag.

Callistemon Tue 10-Aug-21 10:41:41

maddyone

Like Grandmajean I laughed. I shouldn’t laugh but your description did sound funny. Anyway the answer to your question is a resounding no, I’ve never tipped a cup of tea, full or otherwise, into my knitting bag. That could of course be because I don’t own a knitting bag.

maddyone grin

Callistemon Tue 10-Aug-21 10:42:06

All has nicely dried out now, thank goodness!

Witzend Tue 10-Aug-21 18:43:44

Phew! V glad blanket is OK.

We still have a faint red wine stain on the carpet from a visiting friend’s dog, a very waggly flatcoat retriever, wagging a glass of mulled wine on to the carpet at Christmas.

He was such a lovely boy though (RIP) he was forgiven - in any case it was our own fault for not putting such things out of waggly-tail reach.

Brocky Tue 10-Aug-21 18:52:27

I do feel sorry for you, hope the whole lot is Ao.k. when all is dry. It has never happened to me, but I wonder why. Just put it down to ‘Sod’s Law’.