Patent ID: 6286340
Filing Date: 2001-09-11
Classification: D04B

Abstract:
A knitting method for knit clothing using a flat knitting machine having at least a pair of front and back needle beds arranged in opposition to each other, wherein after a tubular body, into which a first body and a second body are knitted in their overlapped state, and right and left tubular sleeves, each of which is knitted in the state in which both front and back sides are overlapped with each other, are knitted from hems to armpits, the sleeves and the body are joined, the knitting method comprising the steps:1) that the first and second bodies and the right and left sleeves are knitted into one tubular body;2) that a neckline is formed in at least one of the first and second bodies during the step 1;3) that the sleeves are shifted toward the body so that the body and the sleeves are joined at the armhole;4) that a course knitting for the sleeves and the first body is completed, followed by proceeding with a course knitting for the remaining second body;5) that the second body for which the course knitting proceeds in the step 4 is knitted up to a shoulder line, during which the second body is shifted toward the sleeve and the second body and the sleeve which is formed on the same side with respect to the shoulder line are joined at their joining portion in such a manner that the stitches of the second body can appear on the front side of the stitches of the sleeve;6) that the second body for which the course knitting proceeds is knitted beyond the shoulder line, during which the second body is shifted toward the neckline and the second body and the sleeve which is formed on the opposite side to the sleeve joined in the step 5 with respect to the shoulder line are joined; and7) that the first body and the second body are joined at the shoulder.