Knit wear neck part knitting method and knit wear

A method of knitting a neck portion of knitwear on a flat knitting machine, said knitwear comprising a front body, a back body and a collar of the front body and/or a collar of the back body said flat knitting machine comprising at least a pair of front and back needle beds, at least either of which can be racked laterally to transfer stitches between the needles beds, wherein the knitwear is knitted from a bottom hem of said knitwear to a shoulder of said knitwear, and the body is knitted with a flechage knitting a predetermined number of times to be forked into a right side and a left side from a starting point for a neckline to be formed and stitches around the neckline are sequentially removed during knitting to be put into inoperative states so as to form the neckline, followed by the forming of the collar around the neckline, the method comprising a step of, during knitting, moving stitches of the neckline at right and left sides including oblique portions and flat portions adjacent to the oblique portions of the neckline toward a center of the neckline, providing empty needles in the oblique portions and forming double stitches in the flat portions and, thereafter, forming new stitches at the empty needles in a next iteration of knitting the collar and forming a next course of stitches at the double stitches provided in each of the right side of the neckline and the left side of the neckline.