The current easy project: Blanket for N/N#2

Niece #1 got a lacy blanket that can be used as a shawl as she gets bigger. I put a lot of time and effort into it.
N/N#2 is due in early June to a different SIL. I'm making the opposite type of blanket for her/him: easy, machine washable pastels. This removes some yarn from my stash, and doesn't interfere with the time I want to spend on DD's cables.
This yarn Red Heart Baby Clouds, colors 9074 "pale pink," 9363 "Breeze," 9321 "Pale yellow," and last label is lost. Why do I have Red Heart? MIL used the green to tie a quilt. I went down to the dime store (yes, my little town still has one) and picked up three other colors, thinking what a cheap, quick project I could make. Now that N/N is coming, I can use it. For 100% acrylic, it's tolerably soft and not really squeaky. It does crackle with static on my Denises.
Using size 13, with a four-color variation of Clouds and Mountains from BWI, p.68. Gauge is about 2.4st/in, width=36"

How to remove grout from laundry

If your DH pours tile grout out on the driveway, and you walk through it in your brand-new Dockers...
Brush the dried grout with a stiff brush, soak briefly, then apply toothpaste to the grout and scrub again. It takes plaque off your teeth, why not grout?
My experiment worked, so I didn't have to go buy more slacks. (Is that good or bad?)

My current challenge: Aran for DD2

I haven't made a full-scale project with cables yet (only hats).
I bought 12 balls Schachenmayr Scaletta col.0083 from elann in 2005 on impulse w/o project in mind. It's kind of a ladder yarn. It's a nontraditional choice for an Aran-style sweater, but I think it looks good in cables. (please click picture to see detail)

I'm doing a self-designed peasant-sleeve top down sweater with saddle shoulders. I'm 20+ rows into the front. The center cable is "Aran Diamond and Bobble" BWIIp.186, modified by working garter st, not seed st, in large diamond. Next one out is "Little Plait" BWIp.245, and the outer panel is two 8st cables crossed every 16th row with bobble on 8th row, worked at half-drop. (I saw this cable in a Lion Brand pattern in a mag., don't remember which one.)