Abstract: A method of knitting a blank for a garment comprises the steps, carried out in a sequence involving knitting from one waist line to the other in the blank, of (a) knitting two front panels for the garment body with courses extending lengthwise of each front body panel and wales extending in the direction across each front body panel, in the finished garment; (b) knitting two sleeve panels for the garment with courses extending lengthwise of each sleeve panel; and (c) knitting a single rear panel for the garment body with courses extending across the rear panel and wales extending lengthwise of the rear panel. During the knitting, joins are formed between the front panels and the associated sleeve panels by a process involving the procedures of taking needles out of action while holding knitted loops on those needles, and then reintroducing the inactive needles to knitting action, at least one of said procedures being carried out progressively so that suture joins are produced.

Abstract: A method of knitting a blank for a sleeved garment on a knitting machine comprises the steps, not necessarily in the order specified, of knitting fabric for one sleeve and for an associated sleeve shoulder portion of a yoke for the garment, in which knitted courses extend lengthwise of the sleeve fabric and through the associated sleeve shoulder portion towards the neck of the garment, knitting front and rear body fabrics and associated front and rear body shoulder portions of the yoke, in which knitted courses extend in the waist-neck direction in the body fabrics and continue towards the garment neck through the body shoulder portions, and knitting fabric for the other sleeve of the garment and for an associated sleeve shoulder portion of the garment yoke, in which knitted courses extend lengthwise of the sleeve fabric and through the associated sleeve shoulder portion towards the garment neck, whereby the garment yoke comprises front and rear fabrics, each of which comprises a body shoulder portion and a p

Abstract: A method of knitting a body panel for a garment, for example a jacket, in which the panel is provided with a non-run set-up along at least one edge to serve as an edging for the panel. The method involves knitting an edge portion for the panel comprising a non-run set-up, knitting on from the edge portion on some only of the needles holding loops of the edge portion while maintaining inactive further needles holding loops of the edge portion, and introducing these inactive needles holding loops of the edge portion into knitting action subsequently during the knitting process, thereby shaping the panel. The edge portion may consist exclusively of the non-run set-up or it may have a non-run set-up followed by a further strip of fabric. This further strip of fabric may be distinguished from the fabric of the main part of the body panel by color and/or stitch structure. Methods of joining together two or more of such body panels on a knitting machine are described.