While going through project notes, and casting about for something to do after my Mom died in 2016, I found the original penciled chart, and noticed the first row looked like it spelled “LORRI”. Interestingly (to me, at least), NASA had sent up the New Horizons Spacecraft with an instrument called LORRI (Long Range Reconnaissance Imager) in early 2006, and it reached Pluto’s area in 2015. In 2017, it’s heading on its way to the Kupier Belt for more images.

My Mom (Lori) had encouraged my photography (from various film formats like foo.ancient 110 rolls with the accompanying high-pitched whine of the little, inexpensive flash charging up, 35mm a Pentax K1000 SLR was my first ‘workhorse’ camera, eventually to digital) from early years in a myriad of small but meaningful ways. I still faintly remember asking her about photographing rainbows and (this was decades ago,…) and she wasn’t sure they could be photographed with standard cameras. Yeah, they can. I remember being happy to show her. Now, years later, not only can visible light be photographed, but there’s vast bands of other wavelengths that are imaged, regularly.

I modified the pattern to use basic knit, purl, decreases, and increases, but another project using that pattern just wasn’t coming together for me in any way that didn’t frustrate me to the point of tears. I set myself the task of trying to understand brioche knitting to give the pattern another go. Still with frustration and more than a few tears, this is the third result of a variation on that pattern.

Using less than 100y (90m) of two different colors of fingering weight yarn, the hat ends up being 7.5” (19cm) deep (by doing 2 repeats of the main chart. Another repeat would add approximately 2.25” (5.5cm)) by 18” (46cm) circumference. The pattern is very stretchy however and, while fits snugly, will accommodate a 23” (58cm) head easily.