• Wash and dry the shirts to get them ready to upcycle. Knit fabrics are best for this project, since they don’t unravel after cutting.
• Using pinking shears, cut the shirts along both sides of each seam to separate the front from the back. Fold each piece in half along the middle of the fabric, putting shoulder seams together and the bottom edge together. With pinking shears, cut the fabric along the fold to create two pieces of fabric from each front and back.
• Fold each piece of fabric placing the bottom edge of the fabric against the neck cut out. You will have a small part of the neck and shoulder outside the doubled fabric. Cut this off, so that you have a rectangle with straight edges. One dryer sheet made. Repeat this with the other four pieces of fabric from this shirt.
• You will have sleeves, and shoulder pieces leftover from this project. Save them for another use. Repeat steps two and thre with the second shirt. You will have eight pieces of prepared fabric in all.
• Pour the white vinegar, essential oil, and hair conditioner (if you are using it) into a two-cup glass measuring cup. The hair conditioner prevents static cling. If you are in a high humidity area and static is not a concern, the hair conditioner can be omitted from the recipe. The vinegar is a softener and the essential oils contribute a fresh scent that is also an insect repellent.
• Roll each piece of fabric into a tight roll that fits inside your jar. Place the fabric into the jar.
• Pour the vinegar solution into the jar, over all the pieces of fabric. Put the lid on the jar.
• Allow this to sit overnight so that the fabric can absorb the vinegar solution. There will be no pool of vinegar on the bottom of the jar when the fabric has fully absorbed the vinegar solution.

To use:

• Place a wet DIY dryer sheet in your dryer with your laundry load. The vinegar smell dissipates when the fabric is dry.
• Used dryer sheets can be recharged with a fresh vinegar solution and reused multiple times.
• After use, roll the dryer sheets up and place them in a second glass jar. Add fresh vinegar solution when the second jar is full of dryer sheets.
• In this way, you’ll always have dryer sheets ready when you need them.
• Tip: For the hair conditioner in the recipe, I use the small bottles of hair conditioner that you get for free when you stay in a hotel.
• The hotel has to throw the unused portion out, so by taking them with you keep them out of the landfill.