Patent ID: 7316132

Claim:
A method of knitting a knitted fabric wherein a front knitted fabric and back knitted fabric are joined together at lateral ends of a knitting width thereof and which includes a wide rib structure formed by a plating using a flat knitting machine having at least a pair of front and back needle beds extending in a transverse direction and disposed opposite to each other in a cross direction, at least either of which is capable of being racked in the transverse direction so that loops can be transferred between the front and back needle beds, wherein said method comprises the steps of: forming a front stitch of the rib structure of one knitted fabric at an end of a knitted width thereof on a side on which a crossing of the knitting yarns used for the plating occurs as a front stitch on the edge; and forming a back stitch of the rib structure of the other knitted fabric on a side on which a crossing of the knitting yarns used for the plating occurs as a back stitch on the edge; wherein after the front stitch of the rib structure of the one knitted fabric is knitted, knitting the back stitch of the rib structure of the other knitted fabric by changing a knitting direction, whereby a crossing is located in a crossover portion of the wide rib, thereby minimizing a blur of the knitting yarns.