Thanks everyone! It was a pretty gratifying project.

Quote Originally Posted by sydnie7 View Post
If I understand your description of buttonhole alignment, remember that (unless you are really skinny) when you wear it the buttons will tend to move over to the far edge of the hole, not stay nicely centered. I think that is what you found out, just restating it for others who may be tackling a vest for the first time.
Actually, when I attached the buttons I did place them towards the edge of the buttonhole to avoid the problem you described, more or less. It's the overall position of the pattern in relation to the front of the vest as a whole that's off by a bit - you can see it in the photo if you look at the bottom edge on the right, just below the last button; that red stripe barely catches the edge on that side, and misses it altogether on the left side. Looking at other bias-cut tartan vest photos, I've seen them executed in such a way that both halves of the front are perfectly symmetrical.