Knitting the torso of the top-down pullover seems to take so long now that I’m working the bottom rib. I just spent 15 minutes ripping out a row because I forgot to do a decrease. This is definitely one of the biggest disadvantages of knitting in the round.
This picture is from the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [reproduction number LC-USZ62-126794]. I came across this web site after doing a google image search on knitting.
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