Instruction says, "sc through next dc to end of rnd"

[Carolyn leming]

Up to this point in instructions for this hat it says to "dc in next dc" or "sc in next st" for instance. But then in rnd 10 and 11 it says, " 1 sc through next dc to end od row." What does "through" mean compared to "in"?

[Granny Square]

Welcome to the 'ville!

I suspect it doesn't mean to make a stitch in a different way (like back loop for example), I think it meant 'SC to the end of the row', but trying to express that you'd be working into DC stitches.  "Through" as in "stitch X through stitch Y" meaning the span of stitches from the next stitch to the end. 

You'd only normally see a pattern be more explicit if the row below you were a mix of stitches, and if you were to do different stitches into them (make a DC into the chain space, SC into the DC, etc).  

I think the pattern writer was just trying to point out you'd be working across DCs and it came out a bit clumsily. 

[BeautifulNightmare]

Basically sc in the next dc and then in each dc across. So sc across the row