Slip stitch in previous stitch?

[TheCodedMaster]

I have this pattern that I've been doing, but I can't find a way to do a slip stitch in the previous stitch. In Round 13 (https://blueraindrops.com/crochet-cathedral-doily/) it says to chain 4 and then slip stitch in top of last dc. It seems super awkward to me whenever I actually try and do it, and I don't know if I should slip stitch around the back or the front or really anything like that. Is there a tutorial or something for slip stitching in the previous stitch?

[Granny Square]

Welcome to the 'ville!

This is a picot, it the little bump on the last row in the middle of each shell stitch.  The instruction is "2dc, ch4 and slst in the last dc"--which means the dc you that the ch4 'is coming out of'.  It is a little awkward, but a normal way to make a picot; you are closing the chain to make a loop that sits on top of that DC..  

I'll see if I can find a video...edit, found one.  This is 3 chains not 4, but the same concept.  Notice where she is putting the hook into the stitch to anchor the picot.

Edited March 28, 2021 by Granny Square

[TheCodedMaster]

57 minutes ago, Granny Square said:

Welcome to the 'ville!

This is a picot, it the little bump on the last row in the middle of each shell stitch.  The instruction is "2dc, ch4 and slst in the last dc"--which means the dc you that the ch4 'is coming out of'.  It is a little awkward, but a normal way to make a picot; you are closing the chain to make a loop that sits on top of that DC..  

I'll see if I can find a video...edit, found one.  This is 3 chains not 4, but the same concept.  Notice where she is putting the hook into the stitch to anchor the picot.

Thanks so much! I'm pretty sure that I was trying to put my slip stitch into the double crochet before the one I put my chains into, and not the same one. That's probably why it seemed so awkward to me. Thanks!