@ursula I know exactly what you're doing, but if you want someone who's a beginner or hasn't done amigurumi or crocheted slippers before, they aren't going to know a thing you're saying.
I think it would typically be written something like:
Chain 8 in black
R1) SC in second chain from hook, sc in next 5 st, 2sc in last chain stitch. Now working along the backside of original chain stitches, sc in next 6 st, 2sc in last stitch.
It definitely makes it longer, but if it's a pattern you want to publish you have to kind of spell it out for people. Edited to add: but how you're writing it down is the same way I do too. Nothing wrong with it, unless you want to give it to the general public.
Side note...are any of you on Ravelry? It's my favorite for finding patterns and checking out how other people might finish a project. Lots and lots of people publish their own patterns there too.
