No way - knitting this in one piece with 16 balls of yarn. I added 2 stitches for the seams and started with the back.

I think this will get bigger after blocking, so I drecreased down to 15 stitches per panel - the pattern is more symmetrical this way. I made the decreases every 16th row (not every 20th), I don’t want it to get too long.

In case I am wrong, I can make increases for the bust at the front pieces.

No, it was big enough. When I’m knitting lace patterns, the knitting gets always much, much bigger after blocking.

I changed the pattern for the sleeves completely. I made the increases just like the decreases at the body - within the panels, 8 times every 14th row.