Method of knitting tubular knitted fabric

A method of knitting a tubular knitted fabric comprising a first knitted fabric and a second knitted fabric joined together continuously at both ends thereof, and a laminating part formed in the first knitted fabric at which the knitted fabric is partly laminated in at least two layers by using a flat knitting machine comprising having at least a pair of front and back needle beds which extend laterally and are arranged opposite to each other and have a large number of needles respectively and at least one of which can be racked rightward and leftward to transfer loops between the needles beds,

• the method comprising:
• 1) the step of forming the tubular knitted fabric via a full-gauge loop arrangement,
• 2) the knitting width widening step of shifting loops of wale where the laminating part is formed and loops of wale positioned closer to a side end of the knitted fabric than the wale where the laminating part is formed, to provide a half-gauge loop arrangement wherein empty needles for stitch transfer are arranged between needles used for forming the loops of the wale where the laminating part is formed, and
• 3) the step of knitting the first knitted fabric and the second knitted fabric, while the loops of wale where the laminating part is formed are formed to be fine in size so that when the knitting is ended, the loops of wale where the laminating part is formed can be substantially equal in size to the loops in other regions than the wale where the laminating part is formed, to provide the same texture as the loops other than those of the laminating layer part.