The sign of a stable shoe knot is that it is perpendicular to the shoe. A shoe knot angled or parallel is the unstable granny version.

The most simple correction, for anybody else wondering, is simple. Make your first cross the other way and do not change the next main step at all.

Oh! If anyone is interested in shoelace knots, I'd highly recommend checking out the Ian Knot. There's a similar need to make sure the knot is balanced to keep it secure, but it's overall much faster to tie.

Yes, it wasn't recently, but learning this made a huge difference for me. I actually learned it from a TED talk, lol.

https://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes

Explain?

Yup, this was me a few months ago (but my shoes stayed tied...)