Patent ID: 6715324
Filing Date: 2004-04-06
Classification: D04B

Abstract:
A method of knitting a stripe pattern in a tubular fabric by using a flat knitting machine comprising at least a pair of front and back needle beds, wherein a front fabric and a back fabric are suspended in layers from the needle beds and their loop courses are cyclically knitted in an alternate order so as to be joined together at each widthwise end thereof, so as to form the tubular fabric, said method comprising:performing a yarn switching to form the stripe pattern whenever predetermined courses are knitted, said stripe pattern comprising at least a first knitted fabric part and a second knitted fabric part; and missing and/or tucking a loop of at least either of the first knitted fabric part and the second knitted fabric part at a yarn switching point in a boundary between the first knitted fabric part and the second knitted fabric part, to minimize a stitch level difference between a stitch level of the boundary and a stitch level of the first knitted fabric part and the second knitted fabric part, produced at that point.