Patent ID: 6988384

Claim:
A knitting method for knitting on a flat knitting machine a front body including a neck hole, wherein the flat knitting machine is provided with at least one first needle bed and at least one second needle bed, wherein at least said second needle bed can be racked freely to the left and to the right, and wherein a stitch can be freely transferred between the first needle bed and the second needle bed, said method comprising: a) knitting a front body comprising a right front body and left front body up to a point at which a neck hole is to be formed, then knitting one of the right front body and the left front body, to sequentially form widening stitches on a neck hole side thereof while substantially fixing on at least one of the needle beds with respect to the left-right direction; b) moving stitches of the other of the right front body and the left front body and the widening stitches formed on the neck hole side in a direction moving away from said one of the right front body and the left front body with the formation of the widening stitches; c) subsequently knitting the other of the right front body and the left front body to sequentially form other widening stitches on a neck hole side thereof while substantially fixing on at least one of the needle beds with respect to the left-right direction in the same manner as step a); and d) moving the stitches of said one of the right front body and the left front body and said other widening stitches formed on the neck hole side away from the stitches of said other of the right front body and the left front body with said other formation of said other widening stitches.