How do you dry large items?

Well, hang them on the line and if it rains consider it a bonus rinse.

I have a chaise lounge on the deck and I’ll put blankets, comforters and towels out there in the nice weather. Within a few hours, they’re usually dry. Otherwise, I will hang jeans and shirts in the house, either on the shower curtain rod or on hangers, or thrown over a door.

I have a dryer but it’s in the basement and I have to go outside to access the basement, so it’s almost easier just to deal with it in the house or on the deck.

Once in a rare while, if I have something really big, like a big down comforter that won’t fit too well in the washing machine, or a bath rug, I’ll go to a laundromat.

Hang it in the bathroom over the shower rod.

I hang it out on the clothesline.

@kritiper
Unless its raining.

I’m one of the minority of Americans who prefers line drying over the machine, including large items, as mentioned in the Q. On the few occasions when it rains, the clothes seem to smell even better after we dry. Wife and I joke about “rainwater fresh”.

If I have to dry inside, I put dry towels over the backs of chairs, then arrange the chairs in such a way that I can drape the sheets over.
Makes a cool fort, too.

I drape my sheets over a clothes horse at a south facing window.

The sheets are in the washer. It’s cloudy and threatening. I’m going to risk it and hang them on the line. Ooo! I’m daring!

I throw my large stuff, like comforters, over the fence. Rain is a bonus for the reasons @Strauss mentioned.

@Hawaii_Jake Rainwater fresh!

Alas, it’s raining. It’s coming down steady. I recognize this as the kind that will last all day. I put the sheets over the shower curtain rod. I’ll hang my shirts in a door. I may succumb and use the dryer for the rest.

You can fold them once then drape over a folding clothes rack (if you have one). I used to do that sometimes for no particular reason; perhaps I needed to leave home and I’m one of those people who will not leave the house with anything turned on.

I’m in the chair fort camp with @canidmajor.

@Inspired_2write The Weather Channel has reports as to what the weather is supposed to do. If you check ANY weather report in your area, you would know if it’s going to rain or not,
then you wash that day. Simple, no?

Got led here from another Q, am intrigued by all the modding (”flame bait” and ”personal attack”) on a laundry thread! :-D

This is my question, but I have no memory of what went on. How very odd. This may have been one of the threads when a ne’er-do-well new user got involved. He used to harass me.

During the months of rain, we hang sheets over the laundry rack or the doors, and sometimes we set up an indoor laundry line for especially large items. We have exposed beams, otherwise that might be tough.

It also works surprisingly well to double up a sheet and hang it over a radiator, but I think a lot of homes in the US don’t have those.

It’s fairly common around here to have a “drying room” set up in apartment buildings. Often in the attic, sometimes in the basement, usually shared by the whole house.

But I think the real trick is that we don’t use American-style blankets. In our house, we do really like those large blankets that cover the whole bed – but only for the dry seasons. For the wet months, we use European bedding, with separate duvets each in their own cover and only one large, but thin blanket to cover the bed on top. That setup is warmer (the inserts are wool and silk or artificial down, plus easier cocooning due to individual duvets), and it’s definitely easier to launder. You’re just washing four thin sheets instead of a sheet and a couple of thick blankets.