Wrap 6 stitches: inset right needle between 6th and 7th stitches on left hand needle, pull through a loop, place on tip of left hand needle. Knit this together with the first knit stitch on right in group of 6. This is more a faux smocking stitch than the knitspeak version. On row 8, pattern invade next row, just ignore and keep in k2p2 pattern
Shown with a cast-on count of 16 stitches.