u/Successful-Jello-730

[edit: solved! thank you!]

I'm wrapping my charging cables with fun knots and things, and I made this backwards chinese staircase knot that striped two colors together. I cannot for the life of me figure out how I did it, and I cannot find the reference video that I had initially used. Here's a picture of what it should look like (1) and a picture of how it keeps turning out when I try to replicate what I did (2) - it's getting the striped part down but not rotating around the center cord.

Please help me find which type of knot I did here - it's mildly infuriating that I pulled it off multiple times the other day and now cannot figure it out!

see the spiral staircase? this is what I want!

see how it's not spiraling? this is this problem lol