CHILDREN’S PLAY HARNESS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 29, 16 July 1892, Page 724

CHILDREN’S PLAY HARNESS.

Materials : 6 ounces of heavy German-town yarn, 6 little sleigh-bells, and a bone crochet needle. Make a chain of 12 stitches; join in a ring with a slipstitch ; turn the flat or right side of the chain on the inside and crochet once around with the single crochet stitch, putting the needle through the loop on the wrong side of the chain. Keep the right side of the chain always on the inside of the tube, and hold the work so that the inside will always be toward you and your work wrong-side out. The next round and the rest of the harness is made by a single crochet-stitch fastened in the loop, made by passing the thread from one stitch to the other previous to pulling it through the stitch to form the single crochet stitch. This makes a diagonal rib run around the harness, and caff be formed by taking no other stitch. The harness is very firm and durable, and should be three and one half yards long. Sew the ends together, then crochet a similar piece one-half yard long and sew it to the long piece of harness on each side one-half yard from where it is joined. This makes the piece to come in front of the child at the waist-line when the Jong harness is over the neck. The harness will be a hollow tube, with the right side of the crochet-stich inside. Sew the little sleigh-bells on the one-half yard that reaches from the neck to the waistline. Be particular not to miss any stitches in crocheting, lest you make the harness smaller.