Here are some pics. It came out short, which Meg wanted, because I forgot to account for the fact that the cord shortens once it is stuffed. I used the old winch line off the chipper which I washed and it came out pretty clean.
Meg is convinced that the 3/8" amsteel blue, locking brummeled with an essentially 36" bury isnt strong enough to hold the dogs, because its frayed. I tried to explain that it could hang 2 or 3 of her SUV's end to end, she didnt believe me.
Here are some pictures:
There are 2 sets of pockets, the lower (closest to the dog) and upper (closest to the user). The lower ones have some 7mm cord in them with a small knot inside the pocket. The 7mm cord serves to open the pocket up as well as provide a stopper that the handle cant go through. The upper pockets are flush.
The handle is made out of small cordura chafe protector and is really smooth and comfortable. The dog snap can be clipped around the body, allowing the 'floating' action, or clipped into either set of pockets for close city walking.
Whats best is that you can have the handle around your wrist and be holding both lower pockets while you are on the stairs and whatnot.
Note on the construction, there are locking brummels at the carabiner connection points then the inner line is buried 12" or so, comes out for 6" then back in for another 12". There is one more 6" pocket before the center point (constructed the same way), after which I overlapped the tails 6" pulled them out and tapered them, milking them in to set the overlap. All of the splice points are lockstiched.
Took me about 2 hours.