In a Ravelry thread (Working this spiral pattern in reverse?), someone asked if it would be possible to work the Laura Star from the outside in. Since the pattern the OP linked to looked a lot like the one that Franklin Habit posted about in "The Exciting Adventure of the German Lace Manuscript", and that jcbriar mapped here, I'm using that map as a starting point for reversing the construction.
It's early summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Why am I wondering how this would look as a beret/slouchy hat?
Shown with a cast-on count of 52 stitches.