Hello,
Working on my first pair of socks. A friend joined and knitted the first round on the first sock; I finished it and started the 2nd one, but have a dilemma: The yarn is varied so a pattern emerges, and the 2nd sock’s pattern is backwards/reverse of the first, so the socks don’t match. In other words, if I hold the 2nd sock upside down next to the first sock, the patterns match. What have i done, and can I continue (even tho it won;t match), following the directions on the pattern? I think I’m still going clockwise (needle 1, 2, then 3, altho I don’t think I started on needle 1) but can’t understand why I ‘m getting the result I’;m getting. Thank you for any help.
Ellen
(I hope I have described the problem in a way that’s understandable)
Are you using another ball of yarn for the 2nd sock? It may be wound with the color changes opposite the first one. Or if you’re knitting from the same ball, but from the other end instead of where you left off with the 1st one.
Yes, it sounds like the wools are the same, but you have begun each sock from a different end.
Imagine wool that gives stripes blue red yellow purple, blue red yellow purple, etc. One sock, from the top down, may start blue, then red yellow purple etc. The other one starting from the purple end will go purple yellow red blue repeat.
If the colour repeats on your wool are not symmetrical you will need to start at the same point in the same colour repeat and go in the same direction in order to get the same socks.