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I am in desperate need on this knitting pattern for increasing stitches!?

Okay, I'm doing this purse: http://www.garnstudio.com/lang/en/visoppskrift.php?d_nr=98&d_id=54&lang=en you start out with casting 88 and you have to do the garter stitch for 8 rows for the bottom for sewing the seam together, then you have to increase 132 evenly =220 stitches. Under the knitting help link on the page for this pattern, someone gives a little explanation of this: '':increase in front and back of first stitch, make one stitch,knit front and back of next 2 stitches,make one,knit front and back of next 2.......till last 3 stitches knit front and back, make 1, knit front and back, make one, knit front and back........ it cames up with 220 stitches in total...... '' I just don't understand this at all. I know that for an increase you wrap your needle once before you do your knit stitch but this just doen't make sense to me. :( I really appreciate it if anyone has the time to help me!

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1. Still having problems with this purse, Kimmy? <G> Ok, you have instructions for two separate types of increases here, one is the lifted or M1 increase, the other is to knit into the front and back of a stitch. Lets discuss them. M1 is a lifted or bar increase. Spread out the stitches on your needles, specifically the last one knit and the next one to be knit, do you see the strand of yarn running between them? That's the *bar* you will lift. Put your right needle tip under it and lift it up to the left needle. Position it so that the right hand side is on the front of the left needle and the left hand side is to the back if you want to make this a knit stitch, then knit into the back side of it, which twists it and leaves no hole. For a purl stitch, the right hand side falls to the back and the left hand side to the front and you purl into the front, which again twists it and leaves no hole. Knitting front and back, this is exactly what it says. Knit into your next stitch as usual, but do not remove the old stitch from the left needle, instead, insert the right needle into the back side of the stitch and knit it again. The result will be two stitches, the first looking like a knit stitch and the second like a purl stitch. So your pattern tells you to do this, knit the first stitch front and back, make one in the bar before the next stitch, knit the next two stitches front and back, make one in the bar, repeating this to the last three stitches, where you will knit front and back, make one, and knit front and back, make one, knit front and back.
2. I don't mind trying to help you again, so here goes. You make an increase in the first stitch, then knit one, then increase in the next two stitches, knit one stitch, increase in next two stitches, and continue to the end of the row where you would end up with an increase in the last stitch. Your increase is to knit the stitch in the regular way and then put another knit into the same stitch. One of them will look like a regular knit stitch and the other one will look like a purl stitch. The next row will let you know what to do on the increases.