Your questions answered: Wrinkled line-dried clothes

Stephanie [1] wrote to me and asked,

I SO appreciate your blog; I'm subscribed to it and stay as caught up as possible.  Found your post from last year about line-drying clothes [1], and I had a quick question about it.  

I have a couple lines set up in our basement to line-dry clothes (not a lot of room outside), but I can't seem to figure out how to avoid getting the "clothespin pucker," especially on shirts (knit/cotton).  I hang them upside down like you do, but I get almost a scalloped edge along the bottom!  Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for any help you can give me! :-)

Hi, Stephanie! Thanks for writing! I'm happy to write about what we do. :)

I hang our t-shirts outside by just two clothespins -- one on each side. There is usually a small fold at each side, where the clothespin was holding it. I think the breeze helps with wrinkles, though.

Indoors, I use a wooden clothes drying rack. I hang shirts over the rod, basically folded in the middle, and there are no wrinkles or indentions, since there are no clothes pins.

In my experience, clothing hung indoors using clothespins tends to be more wrinkled than clothes hung indoors using a wooden dowel rack [1].

I think the wooden racks are fairly affordable, and one of those would probably solve the scalloped-shirt issue. :) I wish I had an even more frugal no-wrinkle solution for you!

Do any of you readers have other ideas for Stephanie to try? :)