Halloween Knitting Project

This last Halloween, I dressed up as a Gypsy and went to a Harry Potter Party.  I had some yarn in a nice white/brown tweed looking color... Bernat brand, I believe - anyway so I made myself a vest.  The pattern originally started out as someone elses', but I modified it so heavily it's really hard to tell.  I've only made the one vest, which I wrote the pattern for as I went along, so there might still be a few bugs in it, but here it is, with some pictures:

Key:
K=knit
yo=yarn over
st=stitch
ssk=slip, slip, knit
k2tog=knit two together
m1=make one

Halloween Gypsy Vest

Cast on 59 st

Side shaping: k1, yo/yo k1

Left panel right side: k1, yo, k28, k3tog, k26, yo, k1

All wrong sides: purl

Follow this until 21 right side rows have been completed

Bind off 29 stitches, knit to last three st, ssk, k1

Knit to last 3 st, ssk, k1, repeat until 17 st remain

Knit 2 tog, knit to end, repeat until 10 st remain

Next row k2tog, k7, m1, k1

Repeat this row twice

*K2, yo, k6, yo, k2

Purl last row then bind off

Cast on 59 st

Side shaping: k1, yo/yo k1

Right panel right side: k1, yo, 26, k3tog, k28, yo, k1

All wrong sides: purl

Follow this until 21 right side rows have been completed

K1, k2tog, k27, bind off last 29 st

Reattach yarn, k1, k2tog, knit to end

K1, k2tog, k to end, repeat until 17 st remain

K to last three st, ssk, repeat until 10 st remain

K1, m1, k6, k2tog, k1

Repeat this row twice

*K2, yo, k6, yo, k2

Purl last row then bind off

Finishing: choose a lace-up yarn and thread it through the yo holes, then tie in a butterfly knot at the top.

*At this point, I was afraid I was going to run out of yarn, so made two yarn over holes on each strap and threaded some of the lacing yarn through them to be makeshift ties.  If I’d had enough yarn I would have decreased instead of yo, then knit st st until the straps were long enough to tie at the back of the neck.

This pattern was originally based on and borrows heavily from the Fanny Liege “Waitress” pattern, available on Ravelry