Patent ID: 7289870

Claim:
A knitting method for an intarsia pattern executed in a section on a boundary of the intarsia pattern in which a yarn feeding end position of a yarn feeder on a current course and a yarn feeding resumption position of the yarn feeder on a following course differ in a knitting course direction, the method comprising the steps of: performing smoothing knitting by causing the yarn feeder to perform a reciprocating motion in the section such that on an outward route, a part of stitches of a single course in the section is formed, and on a return route, a remainder of the stitches of the single course in the section is formed, whereby the stitches of the single course in the section is formed by the sum total of the outward route and the return route; and ensuring that knitting with another yarn feeder is not performed in the section between the outward route and the return route of the smoothing knitting.