How to Make a Sweater Dryer

Old Screen Option

• 1

  Find an old window screen at a yard sale, in your garage or ask your friends if they can spare one. It should be at least 3 feet wide by 3 feet long, but it can be longer or wider as needed.

• 2

  Wash the screen thoroughly so that your sweater doesn't get dirty while laying on it.

• 3

  Place the screen up off the ground. Sit it on the backs of two chairs or lay it up off the floor or table on a couple of bricks or pieces of wood. You want air circulating underneath the sweater as well as on top.

Homemade

• 4

  Make your own flat sweater dryer by purchasing a length of plastic screen from the hardware store and stapling it with a staple gun to a frame you make out of wood.

• 5

  Use lightweight 1-by-1-inch wood cut to the length and width you want for your frame. You can use any wood you have to make a frame, but 1-by 1-is light and easy to use and a good choice, if you're purchasing wood.

• 6

  Nail the wood together so that it looks like a large picture frame and then roll the screen out on it and staple it to the frame.

• 7

  Have someone hold the screen out tightly for you so that you can staple it.