Life's a Stitch

When it comes to carpet stains I am like a dog with a bone. I will not let it go without a good fight. I know all the products and swear by a few. I’ve had two puppies, a baby with projectile vomiting, and the normal spills of life but this week I met my challenge. My office is located up an escalator from a Starbucks. My staff think Starbuck’s is better than any coffee the office might offer them and spend a good deal of money on their ventis. Now I’m not much of a coffee drinker, I do like good decaf, but price matters and I’m not coughing up $5 a day for Starbucks. Not when there’s yarn like Granbia in the world. I opt for my daily two litres of peppermint tea instead (mostly clear, easily cleaned up). When I arrived at work on Wednesday there was a HUGE stain on the carpet. HUGE doesn’t describe how large it was. It was a venti venti! After grumbling that nobody cared for the carpet quite as much as I do, I went at it. Half a bottle of Folex and half a tub of Oxy clean failed to make a dent. I consulted with the world via the web and found the following recipe: 1 cup of hydrogen peroxide plus 1 teaspoon of ammonia used within half an hour of mixing, followed by a blanket of weighted paper towels promised success. My co-workers expressed fear that I was making a poisonous gas. I agreed not to breath it in and off I went into battle. It looks like I’m winning, but we won’t know for sure until it’s drying and we see what rises to the surface from the underlay. I have not been overcome with poisonous gas so that’s a plus.

No knitting pictures today, hopefully a photo of a finished object on Monday. In answer to a question yesterday regarding the Fey Fantasia scarf – it is done in Mistaken Rib over 39 stitches.

Have a great weekend.