a knitting question re: cabling

[fox]

Ahoy, knitters!

I've got a sock pattern that involves a cable that begins (after several rows of K2P2 rib) with holding 2 sts in front, P1, K2 from cable needle, hold 1 in back, K2, P1 from cable needle. Three rows later, it calls for C4F, and again at row 8 and 12; then in row 16 it has me hold 1 in back, K2, P1 from cable needle, hold 2 in front, P1, K2 from cable needle. So far so good, right?

So I'd think if I wanted to make the cables cross the other way on the second sock, I should do exactly the same thing only swap the backs and fronts, right? Hold 2 in back, P1, K2 from cable needle, hold 1 in front, K2, P1 from cable needle; C4B in the intermediate rows; and to finish, hold 1 in front, K2, P1 from cable needle, hold 2 in back, P1, K2 from cable needle. Right?

But I've begun that way and it doesn't look at all like a backward version of the first sock. I'm stumped.

Comments

[twistedchick]

I'd have to see that one in person, I think. It *should* work out reversed, as you say.