Balaclava – Orange

Low autumn sun, the hour when everything goes amber. That is the colour this balaclava is made of, burnt orange from crown to hem, each square ringed in cream so the grid reads clearly across a room. It has the warmth of a lantern and a little of its glow. Wear it with brown corduroy and a navy coat on the morning walk through fallen leaves. The crochet sits dense and even, snug over the crown and down the neck, with an amber edge framing the face. Worked by hand; the faint shifts in tension from one square to the next are part of its character.