There were some great questions in the comments of yesterday's post, so I thought I'd give you all some more info about the decreases and some close ups.
Here is a straight-on view of the sweater. This is the image I'm marking up below.
The main feature of this stitch pattern, as I see it, are the wavy ridges of post stitches that I've outlined in red.
Next is the open space at the start/end of each oval. There are two spaces (marked with green circles) but the bottom space looks bigger and is more prominent.
The yellow dot is the start of a motif. I will be referring to this later.
There are two bust decreases on the edges of this photo. You will find them by looking for 5 green dots stacked on top of one another. The top two and bottom two dots are part of the normal pattern. The middle dot is where I eliminated a motif (poof!) to create the decrease.
Right where the decreases happen there are four white dots where two wavy lines converge and only one wavy line continues. The nice thing about this convergence, though, is that both lines continue to be wavy and seem to flow down/up. There is not break or 90-degree shift in the flow.
This is the original decrease. The wavy lines converge and end abruptly at the white dots, losing their gentle flow.
Also, the way I decreased I created 3 spaces on either side of the broken line, which is echoed no where else in the pattern.
And yet another problem, is that the top of the motif under the decrease, marked with the yellow dot, is split between two spaces, so the top of this oval motif is wide instead of pointed, like the rest of them.
Here is a close up of the new decrease where you can see all the parts more clearly. Let me know if you have any more questions.