Tips for Removing Black Gel Pen Ink from our Microfiber Couch

Disclosure: This worked easy for me, but your results may vary. I have no background in professional cleaning. Read about my experience at your own risk. You may have a different fabric and manufacturer of your couch. Your ink may be different. You get the idea... I'm sharing my experience and you should hire a professional cleaner if you are worried about damaging your couch when you clean it. This is only my experience on my specific couch. Now that I shared this disclosure, let's move on. 

 Tips for Removing Black Gel Pen Ink from our Microfiber Couch

The world is a canvas to my preschool aged artist. My sweet little preschooler decided to use a black gel pen to decorate our microfiber couple. As you see below, his inspiration involved several lines of ink that I had to figure out how to remove from our couch.

To remove the stains, I used running alcohol (70% isopropyl alcohol) and a cloth.  First, I found an area of my couch that is out of the way to do a test spot to make sure that the alcohol didn't damage the fabric. After my test spot experience, I acted quickly. I poured a small amount of alcohol onto the cloth.

I then blotted rubbing alcohol onto a stain. Added more alcohol to the cloth and repeated until the stain lifted.  In the example below, I started at the center of the line to show you the difference that I made in approximately 1 minute.

I then continued to work my way to small sections of stains. I did the sections one-by-one. The process was a bit slow for me, but I thought that it worked reasonably well.  Hooray!