New knitter needs some help please. [View all]

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I tried teaching myself to knit via Youtube videos and that did not work out great so I joined a class to learn correct techniques.

However this is not a traditional class, it is more a social group of experienced knitters with an instructor that offers support but not structured lessons.

In any case, I am knitting a really simple beginner pattern - it is a shawl with a hood but we never discussed Right side and Wrong side and I have no idea how to tell.

It doesn't really matter in the original pattern because it is basically a straight K stitch but I was getting bored with the straight knit look so decided to change rows 2-5 to stockinette to mix things up a little.

Now I have the correct stockinette one one side of the shawl and the wrong side of the stockinette on the next repeat of the pattern and I don't know how to fix it!

Grrrr

This is the pattern:
The first section is a K1P1 for the entire row and then repeat for 4 inches
Then Rows 1-6 knit stitches
Then Row 7 K3 *yo K2Tog repeat until the last two K2 stitches

Repeat 1-7 for 50 inches leaving the last 4 inches K1P1

So after 15 inches of this I decided to K the first row after the yo K2Tog and then
Row 2 K
Row 3 P
Row 4 K
Row 5 P
Row 6 K
Then back to the K3 *yo K2Tog * K2

Repeat the stockinette style for 15 inches
Then I was going to do seed stitch along the same idea

Hope this is not TLDR or that it makes sense.
In any case now that I am thinking about it I am wondering if every time I start knitting at K3 if that is the right side?

I will be sad if I need to take out 10 rows of stitches since the only way I know how to unknit is 1 stitch at a time and the cast on was 63 stitches.

Thanks to anyone who read this long post.