Make felted wool dryer balls

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Using wool dryer balls has multiple benefits - they lift and separate your laundry to help it dry faster, absorb access moisture, help prevent wrinkles and best of all - reduce dryer time. It is easy to make your own wool felted dryer balls.

Required material:

• 100% wool yarn
• One Pair of nylon stockings
• String

1. 1
   Only 100% wool will do

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   Make sure it is not an acrylic/blend.

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2. 2
   To start, wrap the wool around your fingers

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   Continue until you have a ball of yarn the size of a tennis ball. Repeat.

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3. 3
   Once you have made a few, put them in nylon stockings

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   Separate each ball by a knotted string.

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4. 4
   Throw the nylons full of yarn balls in with the laundry

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   For best results, wash on the warmest setting.

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5. 5
   Keeping the wool balls in the nylons, put them in the dryer with the same load of laundry.

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6. 6
   Once dry, you can cut the, nylons and remove the wool balls

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   They are now ready to be used in your dryer on a regular basis.

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• You can add some essential oil if you'd like to add a light scent to your laundry.

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