Loop Single Stitch/Old Pattern - Help?

[CrochetMonkey]

I have run into a question regarding a stitch abbreviation, and I am hoping that someone may be able to help me understand this. The stitch is called a "loop single-crochet," and it is abbreviated as "lsc." I found a video demonstration of a single crochet loop here, but I don't think this is the same thing (?) I am taking this off of a very old pattern, and here is how the directions are written.....

 

Row 3: Ch 1, sc in first sc, (insert hook in base of next sc, yo, draw lp through and complete as a sc

- lsc

),*sc in next sc, lsc in next sc, repeat from* around, join, turn.

 

I understand that I need go through the base of the next stitch, draw up a loop, but the "complete as a sc" is the part where I get lost. Maybe it is just a sc through the base of the next stitch, but if so, shouldn't it just be written that way? Also, if I do it like the way it is in the video, then I end up with an extra loop on the hook, but then that doesn't make sense either . Is there anyone else here who understands what I am supposed to do here? Thanks so much for any replies.

[CrochetMonkey]

Arrgh, I give up. It must mean a long sc. There is no photo to see this in the pattern, but I am just going to try a long sc, and see how it turns out.

[salos]

Thanks, CM. I haven't run into that yet, but when I do, I'll know what they mean.

[benee16]

To me it sounds like you are crocheting in the bottom of the single crochet stitch from the row before so that when it is finished, it covers the sc of the previous row

http://crochet.about.com/library/weekly/aa042598.htm

this would give it a zigzag look.

Denise

[AngiR]

It could also be a Solomon's knot or Lover's knot. They are basically the same stitch.

Here is one article on how to do it:

http://www.bellaonline.org/articles/art4830.asp

It's also known as an enlongated single crochet. You start the single crochet in the usual manner, except you make the loop you pull up longer than normal, usually around 1/2 inch.