Method for producing a tubular knitting on a flat knitting machine, with at least two needle beds (V, H) arranged opposite each other, comprising right and left stitches in each stitch row, wherein left stitches respectively follow right stitches of a stitch row in a subsequent stitch row, and right stitches follow left stitches in the subsequent row at least above a height section of the tubular knitting, characterised by the steps: a) production of a tubular basic knitting across at least one stitch row, wherein each needle of the first needle bed (V, H) bearing a stitch lies opposite an empty needle of the second needle bed (H, V); b) formation of right (b, f, j, n, r, z; C, G, K, O, W) stitches on the first or second needle bed after stitches to be knitted as left stitches have first been transferred to the opposite needle bed; c) re-transfer of the stitches transferred during step b) to their original needles; d) formation of left stitches (d, h, 1, p, t, x; A, E, I, M, Q, U) on the first or second needle bed after these have respectively been transferred to the opposite needle bed; e) re-transfer of the stitches transferred during step d) to their original needles; f) formation of right stitches (d, h, 1, p, t, x; A, E, I, M, Q, U, Y) on the first or second needle bed with those needles that formed left stitches during step d) after the right stitches formed during step b) have been transferred to the opposite needle bed; g) re-transfer of the stitches transferred during step f) to their original needles; h) formation of left stitches (b, f, j, n, r, v, z; C, G, K, O, S, W) on the first or second needle bed with those needles that formed right stitches during step b) after these stitches have been transferred to the opposite needle bed; i) re-transfer of the stitches transferred during step h) to their original needles; j) repetition of steps b) to i). a) production of a tubular basic knitting across at least one stitch row, wherein each needle of the first needle bed (V, H) bearing a stitch lies opposite an empty needle of the second needle bed (H, V); b) formation of right (b, f, j, n, r, z; C, G, K, O, W) stitches on the first or second needle bed after stitches to be knitted as left stitches have first been transferred to the opposite needle bed; c) re-transfer of the stitches transferred during step b) to their original needles; d) formation of left stitches (d, h, 1, p, t, x; A, E, I, M, Q, U) on the first or second needle bed after these have respectively been transferred to the opposite needle bed; e) re-transfer of the stitches transferred during step d) to their original needles; f) formation of right stitches (d, h, 1, p, t, x; A, E, I, M, Q, U, Y) on the first or second needle bed with those needles that formed left stitches during step d) after the right stitches formed during step b) have been transferred to the opposite needle bed; g) re-transfer of the stitches transferred during step f) to their original needles; h) formation of left stitches (b, f, j, n, r, v, z; C, G, K, O, S, W) on the first or second needle bed with those needles that formed right stitches during step b) after these stitches have been transferred to the opposite needle bed; i) re-transfer of the stitches transferred during step h) to their original needles; j) repetition of steps b) to i).