Patent ID: 7225646

Claim:
A method of knitting knitwear with raglan sleeves knitted by 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: a length of a back body is formed to be longer than a length of a front body, while the bodies and the sleeves are knitted, the sleeves and the front and back bodies are joined, and after the sleeves and the front body are joined, the following steps are repeated, the step 1 that with a boundary between a front sleeve part and a back sleeve part located on one side placed between a pair of the front and back needle beds, a neckline forming part of the sleeve on the one side is knitted together with the back body, while a knitting width of the neckline forming part is narrowed by flechage knitting, so that the sleeve on the one side and the back body are joined, the step 2 that with a boundary between a front sleeve part and a back sleeve part located on other side placed between a pair of the front and back needle beds, the neckline forming part of the sleeve on the other side is knitted together with the back body, while a knitting width of the neckline forming part is narrowed by flechage knitting, so that the sleeve on the other side and the back body are joined.