Socks in Progress

I learned how to fish around in the center of the ball to find the end! I pulled for a while and the patterns of my two skeins just weren't matching so I went ahead and started. Now I guess I'll have fraternal twin socks. You can clearly see from the picture, though, why they didn't match. They're wound on the skeins in opposite directions! Someone on one of my lists complained about this. Why, why, why? They're the same dye lot. ARGH! Oh well I still think they're pretty cool. Plus, I did Queen Kahuna's cast on and it worked pretty well so that makes me happy. I'm making the instep and leg in a 4x2 rib so they fit well. It worked on the socka socks.