Crocheted Teddy Bear Leggings
(See pictures on [pages 139] and [140].)
Material: Old blue or peacock blue knitting worsted.
Bone or celluloid crochet hook No. 5.
Directions:
This work is begun at the waist line.
1. Make 50 chain stitches.
2. Join chain with slip stitch and make 1 chain stitch to use in turning.
Front of Leggings
3. Make 1 single crochet in each stitch of the chain, making 50 single crochets. Join last single crochet stitch to first single crochet with slip stitch. Make 1 chain stitch to use in turning.
4. Make 5 rows of single crochet stitches, taking up both loops of each stitch in row below. Join end stitch with first as explained in direction No. 3.
5. On the sixth row, in order to form the fullness in the seat, make 38 single crochet stitches. Turn without making a chain stitch. Make 26 single crochets. Turn again without a chain stitch, and continue making single crochet to end of row, or joining point.
6. Make the seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth rows of single crochet stitches.
7. Make the eleventh row in the same way as you made the sixth row. (See direction [No. 5].)
Back of Leggings
8. Make the twelfth row of single crochet.
9. On the thirteenth row begin to decrease the stitches, or to narrow the work. When you reach the twelfth stitch, take off 2 stitches as one. Do the rest of the row in single crochet except when you reach the thirty-eighth stitch, when you take off 2 stitches as one. There should be 48 single crochet stitches in the thirteenth row.
10. Continue to make 48 stitches in each row until there are 18 rows in front. Do not break off the yarn. You will have a loop on the crochet needle.
You will use this loop in making the separation for the leg part of the Teddy Bear Leggings.
11. With the loop on the crochet needle, put the hook through the twenty-fourth single crochet stitch, on the opposite side, throw the yarn over the hook, and pull it through both stitches. Now you will work in a circle around the leg.
12. Make 24 single crochet stitches, and join the twenty-fourth to the first stitch in the leg part, with a slip stitch. Make 1 chain to turn. This is the nineteenth row of the garment.
13. Make the twentieth row of single crochet and join last and first stitches.
On the twenty-first row, begin to narrow the leg. Make single crochet stitches until you reach the eleventh stitch. Then take off 2 stitches as one. Continue with single crochet to end of row and join stitches.
14. The twenty-second, twenty-third and twenty-fourth rows are of single crochet.
15. The twenty-fifth row is like the twenty-first row.
16. The twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth rows are of single crochet.
17. The twenty-ninth row is like the twenty-first row. There should be 21 single crochet stitches in the twenty-ninth row.
18. Continue to make 21 single crochet stitches in each row until you have 47 rows from the waist line in front.
19. Next you will make the strap underneath the doll’s foot.
Make 5 chain stitches, and join the last one to the ninth single crochet stitch with a slip stitch.
20. Put 1 slip stitch in each stitch of chain for the strap. Do not break off the yarn. Next you will make the toe part of legging.
21. Make 3 slip stitches, putting them into the single crochet stitches nearest the strap toward the front of the legging.
22. Make 4 single crochet stitches and 1 chain stitch to use in turning.
23. Make 4 rows of single crochets.
24. Now make slip stitches all around the bottom of the legging to make a neat finish.
25. Make another leg like this one. Begin the work at the inside seam or joining point of the leg just made. Start this row at the back of the legging.
Next you will make spaces for a runner at the waist.
At the top of leggings at the joining point, or seam, fasten yarn ready to begin new work.
To Join New Thread
Put the hook through the stitch at the place where you need the new thread. Throw thread over hook, and pull the end of the thread through the stitch and tie in a single knot. Thread end into a zephyr needle, and run it into the work.
See also [page 231].
To Make Runner Spaces
2. Put a double crochet in each of the next 14 stitches.
3. Make 20 treble crochet stitches. (See picture of treble crochet, [page 228].)
4. Make 14 double crochets.
5. Join with a slip stitch the last double crochet stitch to the third chain stitch. See direction [No. 1], above.
To Make the Runner
Make a chain of 75 stitches, and thread through the runner spaces as in making the doll’s petticoat. (See [page 90].)
Fairly Flew gave the directions so rapidly that Mary Frances scarcely realized when she finished one piece of the little Teddy Bear suit and commenced on another.
When the three pieces were finished, “Good!” exclaimed the fairy. “The reason that I talked so fast was that I was so anxious to see how your baby would look when dressed like a Teddy Bear.”
“Come here, dear,” said Mary Frances, holding out her arms, and Mary Marie ran to her.
“Twick, Mamma! Twick!” she cried, trying to get into the sweater by herself.
Mary Frances helped her and soon she was dressed.
“Doesn’t she look dear!” exclaimed Mary Frances, kissing her.
“She looks too cunning for anything!” said the Yarn Baby.
“I could roll yarn for her all my life,” declared Wooley Ball.
“Isn’t it wonderful to make such a beautiful thing out of a string?” asked Crow Shay. “I should think that everybody would learn to know us nice Crochet People.”
“I should, too,” said Mary Frances. “I wish all my friends——”
“Hush!” exclaimed Fairly Flew. “I think I hear a step!” And she melted out of sight.
“Tate Mary M’rie for a walk, Mamma?” the little doll asked as Mary Frances took her up in her arms; but when they reached the foot of the stairs, Mary Marie began to look like a doll again, and stared at things just as dolls do.
“She is afraid some one will see her, and the fairy has told her not to talk,” thought Mary Frances. “I guess I’ll take her upstairs again so as to be safe.” And she went to the playroom.
“Nice walk,” said Mary Marie, leaning her head on Mary Frances’ neck sleepily. So Mary Frances undressed her and put her to bed and then went out to play.
