HOW TO MAKE DRYER BALLS - Step by step tutorial with variations

Watch this video to see how to make felted wool dryer balls in different ways. You will learn how to make them with just core wool or wool batting, from wool roving yarn and raw core wool. Using the dry felting technique you will use a felting needle to hold the wool and the wool roving in place before the actual felting process.

Supplies you can find on Amazon.

Wool Roving
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#38 star Felting Needles
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Dimensions finger guards
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Supplies I used:
Core wool (I bought my wool from my local wool shop or from Amazon.
Wool Roving in your colors of choice. From Wool store or Amazon.
Dimensions Wool Roving from Michael's Craft store or Amazon
Patons Classic Wool Roving Yarn 100g/3.5 oz of 100% pure new wool. Color is Aran.
Loops & Threads Undyed Wool 197yds/180m 100% wool. Color Cream Twist
Pantyhose - you will just use the legs. Or Knee high nylon stocking
You will need a felting needle. I used a gauge 36 triangle and also used two 38 gauge star felting needles that I had put together with a piece of a plastic coffee stir stick. It has to be a felting needle. A regular needle will not work. Felting needles have notches/barbs along the shaft of the needle which tangle the wool fibers together which is the start of the felting process. I bought my felting needles from my local wool shop as well as from Michael's Craft Store and Amazon.
a foam block for somewhere to place your felting needles so they are handy to grab when you need one.
-scissors
Scraps of acrylic yarn to tie around the stocking to divide the dryer balls, This needs to be acrylic and not wool. If you use wool yard it will felt in the hot water and will be very difficult to cut away to release your dryer balls.
A large darning needle with a large eye
A tape measure if you want to measure your dryer balls
Optional: Essential oils. 3 to 10 drops on each dryer ball

First 3 dryer balls in video:
I used 4.5 to 6 oz of core wool to make 3 dryer balls
36 gauge felting needle
small pieces of wool roving in blue, orange and yellow and then I used blue and yellow wool roving for dots and final ball I used just yellow and blue wool roving

The fourth dryer ball in video:
1 ball of Patons Classic Wool Roving 100g/3.5 oz

The fifth dryer ball in video:
1 ball of Patons Classic Wool Roving 100g/3.5 oz
1 ball of Loops & Threads Undyed 100% wool. 197yds/180m. Color Cream Twist. (Only used about 2/3 of the ball)

The sixth dryer ball in video:
Some of the left over Loops & Threads Undyed 100% wool scrunched into a small ball
About 1.5 oz of cheaper raw wool core. This wool can still have dirt in it and pieces of hay so it is usually cheaper to buy.
Dimensions wool roving in green, yellow and other left over scraps of wool roving
-2 - 38 gauge star needles put together with a piece of plastic coffee stir stick.

The Seventh dryer ball in video:
About 1.5 oz of the raw core wool
White and orange wool roving

Washing machine setting is Hot wash, Cold rinse.

I have a front loading washing machine so I had to wash, dryer ball number four and five three times. All the other dryer balls were washed twice. If you have a top loading washing machine it might felt them quicker.

After you have washed the dryer balls then leave in the stocking and place in the dryer with your towels and jeans. Once the dryer balls are dry they are finished and ready to be used for your next laundry day.

You can use any where from 2 to 10 dryer balls at once. The more dryer balls the quicker the drying time. I like to use 5.

You can use essential oils on your completed dryer balls. 3 to 10 drops on each ball depending on how much scent you want.

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