Why “ The Infinite Iris”? Well 4 years ago I started a page to promote my small home business selling crocheted items and Infinite Iris was the name I chose for my business.
Iris is the name of my grandmother who passed away in October 2018. It’s also one of my daughter’s middle names. And since the name connects to two of the most important women in my life, it just made sense to use it for my business as well.
Infinite is an ode to the crocheted infinity scarves that launched me into crochet life. I was a newbie with limited skills and my cousin asked for a scarf for Christmas. My mom and I hunted everywhere and couldn’t find any that were as nice as we envisioned. So I decided to make one. It was so fun and turned out so well that I started to make a ton of them. I think I made about 12 in two weeks just honing my skills. Once I got good at scarves it inspired me to branch out and make other things and my passion for crochet just took off from there.
Once I coined a name, I needed an image for my business card. Thankfully my Mom’s cousin is an accomplished photographer and he was able to take an image I sent him of one of my scarves and turn it into this! So much thanks and credit to Greg Waddell Photography.
Where is my crochet business now, you may ask? Well, as a busy single mom I realized that I just didn’t have the time to keep up with it. I constantly felt like I was stressed out, letting people down, or taking too long. Soon I didn’t want to crochet at all. That was no good. So now I just crochet, knit, sew and all those other crafty things for my own personal use or for gifts and that suits me much better! But I still love the name I chose for the venture and the image as it reminds me of the first time I truly took a chance on myself and tried to create something big all on my own.
Photo Credit – http://gregsphotostudio.com
The Infinite Iris 