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By Joe
By Melissa
To "help" the birds build a nice warm nest this spring to hatch their babies, toss some lint from your dryer lint screen onto the branches of your trees. They'll sing their gratitude as they use it for nesting material!
By LS from Michigan
By Ricky
By Michelle
By Katzprizim
It took days to dry, but the texture is wonderful, and since that dryer load must have had something dark in it, the bowl is like a deep denim/ navy gray color with white flecks (although I suspect those are clumps of flour - I can't stress enough to make sure you don't just dump it all in the pot at one time - like I did!) And don't try to use a whisk or you'll be picking strands of fiber (and hair) out of it! Heheheh, What fun! AND depending on what you've been drying, the colors will change!
By Nancy
By Sandy
Mix 1/2 cup of flour with 1 cup of Sta-Flo liquid starch, then add to dryer lint as needed to form shapes on a piece of plywood. Continue adding various shapes and colors, mixing with the Sta-Flo recipe as needed for the right texture. Allow to dry thoroughly, spray with sealer.
Sounds corny, but if you use your imagination you can make an impressive piece of art. Others will admire your work and not know what it is made from if you do it right.
By KAREN
By Joesgirl
The "fluff" in your dryer lint screen makes great fireplace tinder. You can ball it up and use to start fires quickly
By Doggy
A friend showed me how to melt used candles/wax in a coffee can in a pan of simmering water. Stuff the lint into cardboard egg cartons. Carefully, pour the melted wax over the lint. Let dry then use a couple of the "lint/wax eggs" as fire starters in the fireplace. We have used these for 3-4 years .They work just fine.
By Vi
Don't throw away your dryer lint if you have a fireplace or go camping. Fill toilet paper or paper towel tubes with dryer lint and newspaper. Close the ends and you have a great fire starter!
By Melissa Z.
I make the filling for quilts, stuff toys, and my favorite fire starters. For the fire starters, I use the cardboard egg cartons, use wick, wax and lint, melt the wax, put lint in the egg carton, with the wick under it, then pour the wax over it. Use 1 to start for fire.
By Cindy
Be careful when you burn dryer lint. How it burns will depend VERY much on what the lint is made out of! Anything man made will melt, smoke, smell like burning plastic, and put out fumes you don't want to be around. Cotton, wool, or linen dryer lint, on the other hand, is fine. If you have a question, take some outside in your driveway and burn it. If it turns into little hard beads, don't put it in your fireplace.
By Kathy K.
By
01/31/2010
Come on ppl. The fibers in the lint come from your own clothes. I don't see a problem stuffing your kids toys with them. Unless you have random fires set in your house why would it matter.
By Claudia (Guest Post)
02/09/2009
Lint makes really good firetarters. I found a cool website- www.lintlogs.weebly.com - that is selling lint fire starters for a good cause.
By
01/22/2009
(Posted via email)
You should remove the idea to use it as stuffing for dolls, etc. Dryer lint is EXTREMELY flammable and should NEVER be used for anything to do with children. Jenna
By
01/22/2009
(Posted via email)
You should remove the idea to use it as stuffing for dolls, etc. Dryer lint is EXTREMELY flammable and should NEVER be used for anything to do with children. Jenna
By Emily (Guest Post)
01/22/2009
hellopf, The pincushion you saw might have been made out of wool by dry felting, also called needle felting. I just started doing this craft and it is really amazing what you can form just by poking wool with a needle! You could probably find pictures on google images to see if it's similar to what you saw.
By Rob (Guest Post)
01/20/2009
I'm an 8th grade student working on using dryer lint for insulation. So far it seems to be an okay idea. Just wondering what you thought...Thanks!
By Chance L. (Guest Post)
01/03/2009
You know I've been searching sites about uses for dryer lint, and have found nothing on the things I happen to use dryer Lint for.
I use Lint to make CANDLE WICKS, as well as ROPE. I roll my own rope the same way Indians used to make rope from plant fibers. its a long project but i tell you Lint makes a good strong Rope. I make small Ropes to use as a candle wick and they work great. My candles are made from bacon fat or beef fat. I use the tallow I make. I get about 24 hours or more from one candle, or you can use the tallow and chunks of Lint saturated in fat in a large metal bowl as an outdoor space heater or cooker.
By Thomas (Guest Post)
12/11/2008
Hello. I do not thing suggesting stuffing children's toys with such a flammable substance is a good idea. I would actually recommend using dryer lint for purposes as starting fires. I wouldn't keep dryer lint near anything I didn't want on fire.
By Todd (Guest Post)
07/01/2008
Has anyone had success using dryer lint as a pest repellant for rabbits, deer, etc.?
If this works, I'd prefer this to chemical sprays or killing the rabbits.
By Melissa (Guest Post)
06/12/2008
I made a Halloween Mask with dryer lint. I mixed the dryer lint with white glue (like Elmers) to form a paste.
Mold Aluminum Foil to face...several layers of foil work best.
Remove from face and carefully put the paste on the inside of the foil mask. You may need to support parts of mask to keep it from falling.
Leave to dry - this make take days
When dry you can trim or cut out the parts you don't want.
Paint and punch holes on the sides of the mask to string ribbons thru.
This makes a really durable mask that will last years and is custom fit to your face.
By candice (Guest Post)
01/31/2008
Dryer lint is extremely flammable. Please keep this in mind when you are deciding to use it to stuff your childrens toys with it or use it for pillow stuffings. If you wouldn't put flammable pj's on your kids at bed time then please don't make them flammable toy and pillows.
By
12/15/2007
I recently saw a new pincushion in a local quilting shop. It looked like it had been made from a big ball of dryer lint. There were various colors visible in it and it had been molded into a large ball shape with a flat base. Does anyone have any idea how to process dryer lint to achieve a pincushion like this? I have searched but so far have not seen anything online for making such a thing.
By
04/23/2007
Please Do Not Use dryer lint to stuff toys! It is highly flammable! Keep those precious children safe.
By Mary Ann (Guest Post)
04/11/2007
We make fire starters this way. Take a egg carton the cardboard ones. Fill each cup with lint. After they are full pour paraffin on top to seal them and use them as fire starters. Or melt down those half burnt candles you never know what to do with. That burn right down the middle.
By
04/07/2007
Melody,
With the change of seasons where I live, I always look forward to spring when I can use my clotheslines outdoors, too! Also wanted to tell you I love the angel graphic and saying under your post!
By
04/07/2007
i have saved quite alot of dryer lint to "do something with"
not really knowing WHAT --
thought a little about clay so THANK YOU for posting the recipe homeschoolin_mum & didn't think of paper making - so THANKS Katzprizim
& I lived in a really drafty old house & used my dryer lint to tuck into cracks around a door - so THANKS for reminding me Michelle
& I haven't stuffed toys with it but thats a good idea Melissa
& I used to send my son off to Scout campouts with a bag of dryer lint for the firestarters
like you mentioned Doggy
I know they say the dryer will do better if you remove the lint all the time- sometimes we forget
& i had a bad experiance with the dryer & wanting to save a little money by hanging out clothes on the line :
in the fall when i wanted to use the dryer again - MICE had gotten into it & chewed wires so I had to get a repairman !
SO- be sure to run it every so often for a little bit - even if it's just on airfluff
to scare rodents out of it !
By
04/05/2007
Dryer lint makes a great firestarter for emergencies, especially if it's rainy or there's no time to look for tinder when you're backpacking or camping or if your car breaks down.
I occasionally save a small bag of dryer lint for this purpose, as well as a small bag of paper birch bark.
BUT YOU MUST KEEP IT DRY, OR IT WILL DO YOU NO GOOD!!!
PMZ
By
04/05/2007
I save the lint to use in the holes wrapped around plants when putting in garden. Keeps moisture in and really helps roots of the plants, especially in a dry season, water stays where it needs to go.
Peg
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