Knitting onto DPNs

[Murron]

I'm running into a problem for a project I'm doing now that I've done once before and am not sure how I got it right the first time!

I'm making a baby beanie that says to switch over to DPNs (from circular) when necessary. When I did it the first time, I was knitting in the round row after row and it looked great. And even when I switched over to DPNs, it continued to look the same way, with the little Vs.

HOWEVER, I'm now making another one and when I duplicate the process and switch over to DPNs, it comes out like the garter stitch, rather than the little Vs that it had when knitting on circulars. What am I doing wrong??