Patent ID: 7181309

Claim:
A method of knitting a garment with asymmetrically joined sleeves by knitting a body and both sleeves up to underarm positions to have cylindrical shapes, respectively, then, joining both sleeves to the body, and then, joining upper ends of a front body and a back body of the body, comprising the steps of: (a) after knitting both sleeves to the underarm positions, knitting sleeve caps comprising front sleeve caps and back sleeve caps for both sleeves by flechage knitting such that the front sleeve caps become narrower than the back sleeve caps; (b) then, forming gores t the underarm positions for connecting both front sleeves and the front body without forming any gores between both back sleeves and the back body, or in the case of forming gores between both back sleeves and the back body, forming gores at the underarm positions for connecting both front sleeves and the front body such that the gores between both back sleeves and the back body become smaller than the gores between both front sleeves and the front body; and (c) then, knitting the front body and the back body and joining the front body and the back body to both sleeves such that the knitting width of the front body becomes smaller than the knitting width of the back body above the underarm positions.