Quote Originally Posted by Hothir Ethelnor View Post
Well I probably cheated and didn't mantain perfect diamonds.

I knit them flat and simply added a stitch at each end as I went along for the increases.

Then when they get stitched together, the seam at the back will not have a perfect pattern in it although it will still be symmetrical.
Yeah, that's part of the problem. I've also seen what appears, to my inexperienced eye, to be a fudging of the shape of the diamonds--where the bottom corner is three or four stitches wide rather than a true corner one stitch wide.

Also, you can block the hose and the knitting will stretch but then you risk seeing skin through the hose if the patterns aren't right or the knitting dense enough.