Knitting method of tubular knitted fabric

A knitting program encoded on a computer-readable medium for joining at least three separately knitted tubular parts using a computerized flat knitting machine having at least a pair of front and back needle beds extending in a transverse direction and disposed opposite to each other in a cross direction, at least either of which is capable of being racked in the transverse direction so that loops can be transferred between the front and back needle beds, the knitting program comprising:

• a determining command of determining two tubular parts to be joined;
• a setting command of setting positions of boundaries of a front knitted fabric and a back knitted fabric immediately before joining so that length in a knitting width direction of the front knitted fabric and the back knitted fabric are of desired length when the tubular parts are joined for the tubular parts determined to be joined by the determining command;
• a rotation command of rotating the tubular part so that the boundary is positioned between the front and back needle beds immediately before joining for the tubular part in which length sin the knitting width direction of the front and back knitted fabrics differ and the boundary on the joining side is not positioned between the front and back needle beds by the setting command;
• a joining command of joining two adjacent tubular parts in which the boundaries are opposed to each other between the needle beds while holding the boundary in between to form one tubular part according to the setting command and the rotation command for the tubular parts determined to be joined by the determining command;
• and
• a repeating command of repeating the determining command, the setting command, the rotation command, and the joining command until all the tubular parts are joined.