The claim is for a method of knitting a jacquard pattern on a flat knitting machine into a tubular body whose front and rear fabric are knitted together at their side edges. The flat knitting machine has a pair of first and second needle beds facing each other with a gap in-between. The method involves; knitting a first course on the first needle bed; transferring the knitted loops to the second needle bed; forming a course using the needles of the two needle beds; and transferring the knitted loops back to the first needle bed. IPC D04B.