Lena's Diamonds -- Pattern Draft

This is one of my mom's child size vests. I wrote up the pattern from notes I took while she talked about how she knitted it, and I have not had the chance to test knit. I hope by putting this up on my blog someone will be able to test knit it so I could make changes to the pattern. Ultimately I hope to publish it on Ravelry or other places as free pattern for charity knitting.

Yarn: various colors of baby yarns

Needle: US Size 4

Finished Size: About 28 inches chest, 19 inches long

Triangles on the bottom:

  Row 1 (right side): pick up 6 sts, place marker, pick up 6 sts, total 12 sts per pattern.

  Row 2  and all wrong side rows: purl and decrease 1 on each side of marker

  Row 3 and remaining right side rows: knit

  When 2 sts left k2tog on the right side

Diamonds:

  Row 1 (right side): pick up 9 sts from neighboring triangle or diamond, place marker, pick up 9 sts from the other neighbor, total 18 sts per pattern

  Row 2 and all wrong side rows: purl and decrease 1 on each side of marker

  Row 3 and remaining right side rows: knit

  When 2 sts left k2tog on the right side

Triangles on the sides:
  Row 1 (right side): pick up 12 sts
  Row 2 and all wrong side rows: purl
  Row 3 and remaining right side rows: knit till 2 sts left, k2tog

Front:
  Cast on 77 sts, k1 p1 for 1 in.
  Pick up for the first triangle. Knit one triangle at a time and leave 2 sts open between each triangle.
  When picking up for the first set of diamonds, anchor the center 2 sts on the ribbing. Do the same when picking up all the diamonds (pick up 8 sts from the side of a diamond, 2 sts from the diamond below). This way the diamonds look more connected.
  Arm hole shaping: decrease 1 st per row at each end for 2 rows.
  Neck is natually shaped by the diamonds and triangles.

Back:
  Cast on 77 sts, k1 p1 till it's same length as front with no shaping for armholes or neck. Back will pull in a bit and that's ok.