Patent ID: 7212881

Claim:
A method of knitting a garment with asymmetrically joined sleeves by knitting a body and both the sleeves up to underarm positions to have cylindrical shapes, respectively, then, joining both the sleeves to the body, and then, joining upper ends of a front body and a back body of the body, on a flat knitting machine having a pair of front and back needle beds, the method comprising the steps of: (a) forming gores at the underarm positions for connecting front sleeves of both the sleeves and the front body without forming any gores between back sleeves of both the sleeves and the back body, or forming gores at the underarm positions for connecting both the front sleeves and the front body such that the gores between both the back sleeves and the back body become smaller than the gores between both the front sleeves and the front body in the case of forming the gores between both the back sleeves and the back body; (b) rotating at least one of the sleeves and the body in a first direction on the flat knitting machine such that a border between a front side and a backside of the one of the sleeves is positioned between the pair of front and back needle beds, and while knitting the one of the sleeves and the front and back bodies, joining the front and back bodies to the one of the sleeves; and (c) rotating at least the other of the sleeves in a direction opposite to the first direction on the flat knitting machine such that a border between a front side and a backside of the other of the sleeves is positioned between the pair of front and back needle beds, and while knitting the other of the sleeves and the front and back bodies, joining the front and back bodies to the other of the sleeves.