Not the best photo, but I'm halfway to the armhole on the back of the vest (waistcoat).
This is my own design. The back is very simple. Just cast on at the bottom, knit straight to the armhole, decrease a little bit then continue on up to the neck.
The fronts are a bit different. I'll be picking up stitches along the side edge of the back and knitting across, casting on extra stitches for the front armhole after the first few rows, and then knitting straight for a while. Then I'll be decreasing at top and bottom to make an angled front, gradually decreasing the stitches away until there's only a few left. The fronts will then overlap and can be fastened with a shawl pin or brooch. It took a bit of brainstorming to figure out the rate of decrease on each end.
As it's all in garter stitch, there won't be any fussy edge finishing required. All that will need to be done after the knitting is to join the shoulder seams.
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