of the rear needle bed cf although the hooked thread is not looped on a knitting needle it will be referred to as a hooked stitch hereinafter for ease of the description is directly succeeding to a stitch on the adjacent knitting needle e hence the length of the thread will be shorter as compared with a conventional method in which the thread is passed from the rear knitting needle e via the front knitting needle f to the rear needle f the thread extending from the hooked stitch 3 created on the knitting needle f in the course of fig1 4 to the hooked stitch 4 produced on the knitting needle f in the course of fig1 6 intersects the thread extending from the hooked stitch 4 to a knit stitch 5 on the knitting needle f of the rear bed also the thread extending from the knit stitch 5 on the knitting needle f to the knitting needle g of the front bed intersects the thread extending from the hooked stitch 3 on the knitting needle f to a knit stitch 4 on the knitting needle f of the front bed accordingly the hooked stitch 4 on the front knitting needle f and the knit stitch 5 on the rear knitting needle f both will not be pulled up by stitches produced on the knitting needles f and f in the succeeding course also the.