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What does dc in next dc mean? 

[Granny Square]

This is the sort of thing you would see if you are making something other than rows and rows of the same stitch--it wouldn't need to tell you to do that if the whole thing was straight DC.  Like lace for example, where you might have a row with *sc, dc, chain space, shell, something, something, repeat from * for example.  So when you are working the next row into that combo, the pattern needs to TELL you where to put the next stitch, you won't be putting 1 stitch into 1 stitch necessarily.

It literally means what it says--example if row 1 alternated sc & dc, and you are working row 2 and the next stitch in front of you was a sc not a dc, it would mean to skip the sc and dc into the dc.  

Edited April 17, 2020 by Granny Square