Is this right?

Hello everyone, this is my first post. I am making my cardi out of Elann Highland wool in Vista blue and Coffee Bean brown (in an attempt to match the sample). I have completed the entire back and left front panels. Though, I am suspicious that I did not do the neck decreases properly. This is my first sweater and I barely know what I am doing. Here is a photo of the left front, so the neck decreases are on the left side.



When the pattern says to cast off 5 (smallest size) on the neck side, does it mean to do this all in one row? I stretched this out over 5 rows because i somehow decided that this would make the correct number of stitches per row...or something like that... oh I don't know why I decided that must be right. but comparing to lcord's post , I think I did it wrong.

Should I redo the neck decreases?

The back turned out very nicely, and though I haven't blocked it I am happy that I chose the second-to-smallest size instead of the smallest size. I have a picture of the back at my blog .