I don't know about doh, but schize comes to mind. lol. Who'd a thunk it!

aha - well at least now you know! It's looking good though..

I wouldn't have caught that. I'd have a completed pair of socks and someone would point it out... and I'd be crabby.

I wouldn't have noticed either. It looks great both ways, really, but it's important to get these things right, I suppose.

I love that striping. I have to get some of that yarn!

With Regia you always have to use the center to get the pattern from the ballband. Or you knit toe-up. ;)

I've been eyeing this yarn for a while. I love it, although my German is VERY rusty.

Those big chunky stripes are so nice. The socks will be gorgeous. :)

hmmm...i dont get how you did that. Inteleganze...ya!

Anyway, sometimes its good to have a german husband :) Looks nice, although I would never wear socks in that colours :)

Hahaha, I noticed it at first glace, too! I actually was in a department store that has yarn yesterday. Saw the Regia Nation yarn for Germany...and was just about to buy it....maybe I should go and get them today.

No, Germans don't have 'Doh'....we just say 'Scheiße'...which is 'shit'.

good girl!!!!
you know: "ohne fleiss, kein preis!"
;-))

Ooops! At least you caught it early on.

I love the socks! I think I need to find some of that yarn for my own pair.

Thanks for my morning's entertainment. ;-)

Alison, does that mean that you knit from the outside of a center pull ball?

'Doh' is 'doh'. Homer Simpson says it in German too. But 'Scheiße' is always good, too ;-)

I used some of this Regia-Nation-yarn to make the soccer club socks for my sister in red-white; they have other club colors as well. I loved the block-striping!

Way cool, I'll have to have the shop order me some of this for MY German (heritage, not born) husband. What fun.

I would never have noticed the stripes were off! I'm glad Beate mentioned that about Regia. We just ordered a whole bunch of Regia sock yarn at the store where I work. When we took the store over, all the former owner had left for Regia was solid colors. We ordered mostly self-striping stuff. Good to know!

Hehe.. NOW it will work properly. There's no way watching football/soccer and cheering for a team while performing a headstand!
And now, after your second attempt: isn't it much more comfortable to knit these skein as 'centre-pull'? As someone said before, Regia (Opal..) always from the centre. Happy knitting.

I've got some of that in a different colorway. I love the wide stripes!

Those socks are going to be great!

Alison, I'm surprized that you don't knit from the center.. i guess you must do most of your knitting at home so the compact thoughts don't come out.. i'm ususally knitting on the bus or in the subway and want and easy put system rather than having the yarn bounce around at me.. but i'm still glad you made the post cause i always do my socks toe up now .. and i would also have gotten it wrong.. so it will be time to rewind the yarn the other way around and then start toe up.. thanks for the heads up on that one:-) karola
ps getting so excited about what to do for my sock buddy :-) k

Thanks, Beate, I didn't know that about Regia and Opal yarns. I don't usually bother tyring to find the center of a ball. The few times I have tried it (with Rowan or Debbie Bliss yarns), a huge clump of yarn has to be pulled out to find the end and then eventually a knot develops somewhere on the inside. But I didn't have a problem finding the end in the center on this ball. Still, if you're supposed to knit it this way, why not have that end be visible on the outside, like the Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride yarns have??

I'm a graphic designer, and sometimes advertisers what the Italian flag colors in the background of their ad, and I have to check every single time that I don't switch the red and gree around so that their Italian restaurant won't become a Mexican restaurant.

Funny, Jenn! :D

Hubby looked up the colors as I had knit them originally and told me I was knitting the Ugandan flag!

Glad you caught that striping problem before you finished the sock...LOL

Ha,ha,ha! I never would have thought of that happening. Good think you showed him before you got the first one done. :) *And I'm still giggling about Jenn's Italian/Mexican flags and that your sock was Ugandan!

Uh, that's good thing. We just woke up here on the West Coast. *grin*

It would have worked nicely for a toe-up sock.

Whoa - you just gave me flashbacks to last year's German translation class, in which we had to translate an entire essay about "Aller anfang ist schwer." I'd blocked it out until now! :) The newly-top-down socks look great.

Brave ripping. Lovely flag-sock.

You know, I lived in Germany for 11 years... I speak fluent German... but darned if I know what order the colors come in on the German flag. Doh indeed. Thanks for the tutorial.
The socks look *geil."

What an interesting quote. I like it very much.

OH MY GOD! That yarn is FABULOUS. I might have to convince my German boyfriend to let me knit him a pair of those!!

Das ist genau richtig! Ich liebe deine Socken. Eigentlich liebe ich deinen blog. Too cool. I live in Germany and probably would have done the same with the colors. oops :)

I'm working on socks with that yarn for my son (who is thrilled with the colors). I double checked that I'm working it correctly (I am). With German heritage (well, a German maiden name) I figure I should make sure they're correct.:-)

phew! It is good you hadn't knit the whole sock. BTW, I completed the baby cotton hat in Angora (a different colour from yours) and it fitted the baby like a treat! Thanks for posting about that!

Just a small update: I decided against the Regia Nation yarn...coz I'd never wear it anyway...and got myself a skein of Meilenweit Cotton Maya instead. (How could I resist...I HAVE to take something with me when I go into a LYS *LOL*)

I like the colors of Germany's flag. They are so bold.

I like it either way- socks are just plain good. My husband is totally flattered that his Superbowl cake got a mention in the Sockapalooza update, by the way!

Well, if you had stayed with the first try, you would have had Belgain socks, not such a bad thing in my opinion (oh well, I'm Belgian, but not really that big about it ...). *grin* Actually, the stripes of the Belgian flag go vertically, while those of the German flag go horizontally. The colours are the same, but the folluw up isn't. It always confused me as a kid!

greets from tiny Belgium!

Well, you could have knit from the wearer's point of view while looking down at the feet...... Nice socks either way!!

We had that discussion at work a while ago -- I work for a German company and no one could remember which way was "up" when we bought a new German flag! No, not even the resident German expats... Internet to the rescue, of course.

I have some of that in stash, I need to get it out and get busy too!

Hey, you could just have called them Belgian socks!