Sunshine Bucket Hat

Sunflowers turn toward the light, and here they seem to have found it. Raised yellow blooms with soft brown centres are scattered across the pale pink crown of this bucket hat, as if they had seeded themselves. The open crochet lets the breeze through, and the scalloped brim sits close over the ears, gentle rather than grand. It belongs to slow summer things: a bike with a basket, a long lunch outside, a book in the shade. Light enough to push into a bag and pull out again without complaint. Each flower is crocheted and set by hand, so they fall a little differently on every hat.