DPNS: 'slip next stitches onto scrap yarn..' help!

[egduf8]

Next rnd: k6, co2, sl next 12 sts onto scrap yarn, k across rem 6 sts, join rnd.

These are some instructions for me to do on a pattern I'm knitting in the round, with 4 dpns (3 have stitches, knitting with the 4th).

I'd just like to clarify these instructions: I knit 6, then cast on 2, then slip the next 12 stitches onto scrap yarn (how would I do this?), knit across the remaining 6 stitches then join into round .. (aren't we already in the round?)

Thanks in advance for your help! Greatly appreciated.

[imrachel]

You can just take a piece of scrap yarn (using a different color always works best) and work it through the 12 sts with your needle, taking them off the needle as you go. It's just instead of using a stitch holder, which isn't flexible the way yarn is. You're then joining the sts which are still on the needles in the round. This will create a bit hole where the 12 sts on the thread are. It sounds like the thumb hole in a mittern. Except that would be a very odd mitten, with 14 sts on the hand and 12 for the thumb! What is the pattern you're using?

[egduf8]

http://ysolda.com/patterns/stuffies.pdf

That is the pattern.. I'm currently knitting the bunnie's head and at the moment working on the ears! I'm deathly afraid of stuffing up again, as I've already ripped it once.

It's quite a confusing pattern.. for me at least xP

With the scrap yarn, how do I use it? How do I slip the stitches onto the scrap yarn?

Also, the next bit in the pattern asks me to Work each ear separately as follows, reversing shaping for second ear.

Reversing shaping?

[Ingrid]

The easiest way to slip yarn through stitches is using a blunt-tip needle, or tapestry needle. Something with big eye. You can use a crochet hook in a pinch, too.

When a pattern says to 'reverse shaping,' it means that you're going to make a mirror image of the first one. So if in the first ear you decreased at the beginning of the row, do it at the end, and so forth.

The easiest way is to just do the increases and decreases with the wrong side facing you if you did it previously with the right side facing.

Once you get the first ear done, if you're still confused, come back.

[imrachel]

In these photos, there's an enlarged one where the sewing needle with red yarn is going through the navy stitches-- that's how you do it. The photo below that shows the stitches on the red thread-- that's the result you want.
http://www.craftstylish.com/item/291...cardi-part-two


These are stitches being held on a holder. But a holder isn't flexible the way yarn is, so sometimes scrap yarn is suggested, instead, like in your pattern.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lollyknit/3265233054/