Abstract: Abstract: The paper deals with the influence of performance of knitting fabrics on garment’s skived edge process. The experiment chooses 10 kinds of knitting fabrics and divedes the samples into two groups according to the elongation and the difference of the thickness by the clustering method, then chooses the different seam kinds, stich density, sewing treads and press stand to sew them and measure respectively the changes of the size, tensility and intensity of the skived edge. The experimental results are analysed by the SPSS software and sums up the law of fabric performance’s influence on skived edge process and improve the methods of sewing quality of knitting garment skived edge through the mean comparision, T test and partial correlation analysis. The study shows that the better the tensile properities of the fabric is, the larger the size changes of knitting garment’sskived edge being sewed is; the thicker of the fabrics is, the more remarkable change of the elongation occurs; the stich density is directly proportional to skived edge’s intensity and elongation. Study can be used for knitwear design and production and processing side of the mouth of the forecasting process of matching.

Key words: knitted fabric, sewing factor, edge location, elongation rate, breaking strength