Applicant: Shima Seiki Mfg (JP)

Inventor: Okamoto Kazuyoshi (JP)

Publication Date: 9 July 2008

Abstract of EP1942215

A method of knitting a knitwear capable of widening the opening angle of a V-neck collar without forming twisted stitches is provided. A knitwear with a collar is knitted using a flat knitting machine wherein a body is knitted and shoulder parts are joined while holding stitches for forming a neckline part on a needle bed in a resting state, the stitches for the front neckline part are transferred so that the stitches are held in the needle extracted status with empty needles of at least a number of widening stitches, and the stitches for the back neckline part are transferred so that the stitches are held in the needle extracted status with empty needles in at least one part so that a length in the knitting width direction of a knitted fabrics held on the needles of the front and back needle beds becomes substantially the same, widening stitches are formed on some or all of the empty needles on the needle bed holding the stitches for the front neckline part to increase a peripheral length of the front neckline part, and stitches are formed on the stitches including the widening stitches at the front and back needle beds to knit the collar.

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Method of knitting knit wear with collar