knitting help request

[firecat]

I'm trying to swatch a knit pattern. There's a detail picture of what the pattern looks like on this page:

http://www.berroco.com/exclusives/lali/lali.html

The instructions include something that doesn't make sense to me. (Highlighted below.)

PATTERN STITCH (Multiple of 2 + 3)

Row 1 (RS): K2, * insert needle from back to front between the next 2 sts and knit the 2nd st, then knit the 1st st slipping both sts off LH needle; rep from * across, end k1.

Row 2: P2, * skip next st and p the next st, then p the skipped st slipping both sts off LH needle; rep from * across, end p1.

Rep these 2 rows for Pat St.

What I don't understand is - if I insert the needle back to front to knit, the needle is pointing out the front of the fabric, but the yarn is behind the fabric. I can't figure out how to get a loop onto the needle that way. Should I bring the yarn to the front? Do they mean something by "insert from back to front" that I don't understand? I don't think they mean "through the back loop" because other patterns on the site use "through the back loop" for that.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Going into the back just gets you to stitch the second stitch behind the first. So you stick the needle between the two stitches, skipping the first stitch and knitting into the second.

Your needle will poke out between the two stitches, aiming at you, then keep turning it into the second stitch, go into the stitch and get the yarn from the back and bring it back out through the front of the second stitch and to the back between the two stitches. You will now have a knitted stitch on your right needle and the unknitted stitch that you skipped still on the left needle. So you go around to the front of the stitch that you skipped and knit it.

HOH