Abstract: The knitting of different parts of woolen sweater including body piece, sleeve and collar leaf needs casting-on separately. And the knitted fabric has laddering and curling characteristics. So the design of casting-on stitch structure of woolen sweater is very important. The rib stitch is often used in the production to form excellent non-laddering true selvedge. Sometimes plain stitch, milano stitch, milano rib stitch are used to achieve specially designed appearance effect. Based on experience summary, documentation and empirical research, this paper gives detailed analysis and introduction of the casting-on operation, analyses all kinds of casting-on stitch structures and knitting methods of woolen sweater.

Key words: woolen sweater; casting-on; stitch structure; knitting