Method for knitting a design on a garment pouch

1. A method for knitting a garment, comprising:

knitting all yarn feeds on all needles on a circular knitting machine knitting cylinder to begin knitting the garment;

at a pre-determined location in the garment, forming a pouch by knitting one yarn feed continuously on all needles in a non-reciprocatory manner while knitting the remainder of all yarn feeds on half or less of all needles;

knitting a design at a pre-determined location in the pouch with a single yarn feed different than the continuously knit yarn feed; and

when the pouch is formed, resuming knitting all yarn feeds on all needles to knit the remainder of the garment.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein forming the pouch further comprises

decreasing, in successive revolutions on the knitting cylinder, the number of needles that are knitting at a pre-determined location on each side of the pouch; and

knitting tuck stitches in correspondingly increasing numbers at the pre-determined location on each side of the pouch.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein knitting tuck stitches further comprises knitting tuck stitches with a single yarn feed different than the continuously knit yarn feed and the design yarn feed.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein knitting tuck stitches further comprises knitting tuck stitches with two, three, four, or five needles.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein forming the pouch further comprises knitting continuously with between two yarn feeds and two less than all yarn feeds on all needles in a non-reciprocatory manner.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein forming the pouch further comprises knitting the pouch with a total of four or five yarn feeds.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein knitting all yarn feeds further comprises knitting all yarn feeds on selected needles, the selected needles being less than all needles.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein knitting the design further comprises knitting the design with a yarn having a color different that a color of the continuously knit yarn.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the garment comprises a sock and forming the pouch further comprises forming in the sock a heel pouch and a heel shield that extends above the heel pouch, and wherein knitting the design further comprises knitting the design in the heel shield.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising programming the knitting machine to knit the design at the predetermined location in the pouch.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the design comprises a substantially flat design.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the design comprises a logo.

13. A method for knitting a garment, comprising:

knitting all yarn feeds on selected needles on a circular knitting machine knitting cylinder to begin knitting the garment;

at a pre-determined location in the garment, forming a pouch by knitting one yarn feed continuously on all needles in a non-reciprocatory manner while knitting the remainder of all yarn feeds on half or less of the selected needles;

knitting a substantially flat design in the pouch with a single yarn feed different than the continuously knit yarn feed, the design yarn having a color different that a color of the continuously knit yarn;

decreasing, in successive revolutions on the knitting cylinder, the number of needles that are knitting at a pre-determined location on each side of the pouch;

knitting tuck stitches with a single yarn feed in correspondingly increasing numbers at the pre-determined location on each side of the pouch, the tuck stitch yarn feed being different than the continuously knit yarn feed and the design yarn feed; and

when the pouch is formed, resuming knitting all yarn feeds on the selected needles to knit the remainder of the garment.