Popcorn stitch when doing back and forth rows.

[Bill]

How do you make the popcorns in fillet crochet when doing a horizontal piece and every row has popcorns and you keep turning the work?  Seems as if you have to do an inverted popcorn.  How do you do yours?  I have to comment also that the edc has made all the difference in making my work square off in the pattern.  Thank you for that suggestion.

[Granny Square]

Welcome to the 'ville, Bill!

I don't know why you couldn't 'pop' them to the other side, they would look a little different with alternate fronts and backs facing the same side, but then the alternate rows of filled meshes stacked over one another look a little different front and back, too.  In other words, make them the same way, but poke the popped-out part away from you every other row, so they all face the side you decide is the front.

This doesn't apply for filet, but most patterns I've done with popcorns have a row of something else, often SC, between the popcorns, so you are always making the popcorns on the same side and not making popcorns into popcorns.