If you hadn't washed it yet, I'd say freeze it and scrape it off. This works very well for things like Silly Putty, even in things like feather boas, too (don't ask).

Given that it's already stained and you've sent it through the washer AND the dryer (which tends to set stains), I'll tell you what I did with some very stubborn stains that had been in my kids' clothes. My kids got some of their nicest new clothes very grimy at a baseball game, due to some kind of something stuck to the metal benches, combined with Sno-cone stuff, mustard, and I don't know what else. Someone writing a commercial couldn't have come up with a more nasty, stubborn set of grime.

So I washed it with a variety of things, and while some of it came out, the clothes instantly looked like rag-bag stuff. They had been brand-new, so I kept them for play clothes. For the next year they were worn and washed regularly.

Then we went to visit my parents, who live on a lake. I took the clothes along so I wouldn't have to worry about the kids getting nice clothes messed up. My mom saw the clothes and said "What's happened to these?" I told her, and she said "I can get that out!"

Here's what she did:

She first filled up a pail with the right mix of Oxyclean and warm water (it's on the container of Oxyclean), and let the clothes soak for 1/2 hour.

Then she put them in the washer along with SA-8 detergent from Quixtar, which had just been named the top detergent by Consumer Reports.

It was a simple as that. They came out looking clean. They'd had a year's use as play clothes so they no longer looked brand-new, but they did look pretty new and unstained!

I was thrilled. I bought some SA-8 from the place she gets it, and some Oxyclean. Oxyclean you can buy at most groceries. For SA-8, you have to find someone that sells it.

Now I have to buy playclothes at yard sales.
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