Felted Dryer Balls

Here’s a great way to use up all of those snippets you cut off when making your rugs…..put them into felted dryer balls!

Our Laurie McRae takes a large handful of snippets and wraps them with roving. 

That ball is then wrapped with roving style yarn.  The ends of that yarn are lightly felted into the ball to hold it all in place.

That yarn wrapped ball is then covered with floofed up roving - thin wispy bits are best.  It’s then felted into a ball.

Next up, it’s placed into a discarded stocking and it’s knotted to hold it in place.  Usually you put several balls together into one stocking, with knots in between them.  The whole shebang is then put into the washing machine on the highest heat  setting with the greatest agitation.  Following that is a run in the dryer on high heat.

The stocking is removed et voilà….you have a dryer ball!

Thank you to Laurie and Carrie for their help in putting this post together!