Slipping a stitch

#1

I wonder if somebody could help me. My pattern says:

K1 P1 K1 P1, slip 1, K2tog pass slipped stitch over, P1 K1 P1 K1 P1

Do I slip the stitch knitwise or purlwise?
Also, do I move my yarn from the front to the back ready to knit before or after slipping the stitch?

Thanks

#2

According to Amy’s video (found under ‘Free Videos’ and ‘tips’ the rule is knitwise if one [B]is[/B] decreasing and purlwise if one [B]isn’t[/B] decreasing. So in your case it would be knitwise.

As you will end up with a left leaning knitted decrease (going from 3 stitiches to 1 stitch) between 2 purl stitches I would move the yarn back before sliping the stitch to give a neater finish.