How do I Incr/Decr while keeping ribbing?

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[b][color=violet]Hello, I would love any advice on how I am to follow my current knitting pattern. I am making a hat (Klein Bottle) that has me starting with 24 stitches (8 on each of 2 dp needles) in a K2P2 rib and then I am to…

“Increase in 4 evenly spaced locations around the garment, increasing every alt row for 32 rows having 88 stitches at the end. your final row should be K2P2 rib all the way around.”

Later I will have to decrease to get back to my 24 stitches.

I have never increased in a ribbing before and am not sure just how to do that and keep the rib pattern. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Chris [/color][/b]

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Here’s a smaller example of what I would do to increase in ribbing:

Say we start with 8 stitches

k2, p2, k2, p2

increase round: k2, p2, increase 1, k2, p2
next round: k2, p2, k3, p2
increase round: k2, p2, inc1, k3, p2
next round: k2, p2, k4, p2
increase round: k2, p2, k2, inc1, k2, p2
next round: k2, p2, k2, p1, k2, p2
increase round: k2, p2, k2, inc1, p1, k2, p2
next round: k2, p2, k2, p2, k2, p2

So you will obviously not be able to keep it in pattern the whole time, but you will eventually end up in k2p2 ribbing again. Hope that makes sense!