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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.

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’.

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.

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

All has nicely dried out now, thank goodness!

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

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 10:28:54

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

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!

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 ?.

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. .

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.

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

Not the cat’s wine, you understand, but even so!
That made me laugh!
?

A bottle of white wine got the red wine stains out from DH's wine spill, followed by carpet shampoo.
(He is not Boris, if anyone was wondering.)

The yarn has dried out now, it looks fine, as do the crochet squares (they' re not that good anyway).
I'd just finished a 6ft granny blanket so thank goodness that wasn't still in the knitting/crochet bag.

annodomini Mon 09-Aug-21 19:16:47

I may have previously mentioned the time when I dropped off and my mug of tea flooded my laptop. When it dried out the keyboard had gone haywire and it cost me a pretty penny to get it sorted out. shock

GillT57 Mon 09-Aug-21 19:15:31

I am amazed how much liquid there is when it is spilt accidentally. A cup of coffee on your desk, with not enough to merit another mouthful becomes like the parting of the Red Sea when it spills in the drawer. Defies the laws of physics. Suedonim you would be safer limiting your cat to white wine or a nice safe G&T.

SueDonim Mon 09-Aug-21 19:10:21

Gah! ?. I hope it all dries out nicely. flowers

Our cat knocked over a glass of red wine onto a new neutral-coloured carpet. ? Not the cat’s wine, you understand, but even so! A local carpet cleaner chap managed to remove every vestige of the stain.

Sar53 Mon 09-Aug-21 18:42:30

My eldest daughter often mentions the time, she must have been about ten, when she carried a plate of spaghetti Bolognese from the kitchen to the dining room and dropped it, all over our nice cream carpet.
I've always been very house proud and she legged it up the garden and didn't come back in for some time.
Callistemon I do feel for you xx

Callistemon Mon 09-Aug-21 18:12:21

Lillie

bet that made you crochety grin

?

Yes, the air was as blue as some of the yarn!!

Callistemon Mon 09-Aug-21 18:11:39

Mattsmum2

No but dropped a glass of red wine into my friends handbag!

shock

Lillie Mon 09-Aug-21 18:10:14

bet that made you crochety grin

Mattsmum2 Mon 09-Aug-21 18:05:48

No but dropped a glass of red wine into my friends handbag!

Callistemon Mon 09-Aug-21 17:57:56

I've pulled the rug over that bit, crazyh
It's not too bad, just a darker patch, not as bad as getting out the red wine!

The problem is that the rug "walks"

crazyH Mon 09-Aug-21 17:54:24

Oh Callistemon ?

Callistemon Mon 09-Aug-21 17:50:34

The bag, yarn and squares seem to have survived ok but I'm not so sure about the carpet!

JackyB Mon 09-Aug-21 17:41:55

Horses and stable doors spring to mind!

I feel for you all. Our upstairs carpet is an awful hotch potch of unexplained stains. I've been meaning to get a new one since the kids left home. I don't think I would be as successful as you all at removing stains.

Callistemon Mon 09-Aug-21 17:15:51

Oh yes, as soon as we had a new carpet and suite, they got christened in wine
That was DH that time, it was quite spectacular, and he has banned himself from taking red wine into the sitting room ever since.

Grandmajean Mon 09-Aug-21 17:11:41

wine This has been spilled in my home countless times.