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Two down!

Hip Hip Hurray! I am happy to report that I have been able to cross a few items off my unfinished projects list. First I sewed the buttons onto my shawl, then I finished a corner to corner blanket that I had started two months back. Once I was done with that I pulled out a cream and gold colored shawl I was working on (same as I made myself different color) and I finished that too. I even put the buttons on it lol. (Pats self on the back). When I first started Heart 2 Heart the main focus was baby clothes. I love to crochet baby clothes because there is nothing better than a well dressed baby. It makes people happy to see babies dressed up cute and I love to make people happy. I love to give gifts and when I share my creation with someone I feel like I shared the gift of my love. My heart is in that project, my soul, a piece of me sent to make someone happy. There really is no better feeling. Enough of the sappy stuff though I bet you are dying to see this shawl I have been babbling on about. Ok, go ahead and scroll a little.

So what do you think? Worth the hype or no? I simply love it. People think because I live in Florida now that it doesn't get cold but it does. Well at least it does here in Orlando where I live. Plus not sure if you notice restaurants, coffee shops, and stores tend to keep it real cold. This shawl is perfect to take some of that chill off! Like I said I also made one in a cream and gold color. It
doesn't have a hat though. Here it is:

I used a yarn that I don't normally use for this particular shawl. It's Loops and Thread Glitter. I really like it and I think I am going to buy some and make shawls in other colors too.

Now, I know this is off topic but I have been asked why I named my blog Chaotic Crochet if my business name is Heart 2 Heart. Do I hope that the blog will boost the business and the business will boost the blog? Of course who wouldn't but they are two different parts of me and I wanted that to be obvious. Heart 2 Heart is my business. There you get to see finished products available for sale. This is my blog where you get to see me, all of me. Sometimes (most times) I will be happy, cheerful, and silly. There will be times that I am frustrated or sad about a failed project. Here I hope to show you wips (works in progress), failed attempts, items that I only crocheted for friends and family and may never make it into the store for some reason or another. This blog is all that I am which helps to make up my business. Really, I hope to begin interacting with people through this blog. All are welcome, well all positive people are welcome. No one wants to get online to read a bunch of negativity. I hope that you will share your patterns with me, your ideas, your constructive criticisms and your general comments. Who knows we may just become fast friends!!!! I am new at this so it may be a little rocky in the beginning but hang in there with me.

Anyway talking to you all is great motivation. I am going to try and work on something tonight. I have a dog bed, sailor dress (that will take awhile), a t-shirt, a purse, and a giraffe blanket to finish. All of those are still in their beginning stages. Not to mention I am itching, I mean really itching to create a skirt for my daughter's Our generation doll. I want it to have have the look of those fifty's dresses can't recall what they were called. It is on the tip of my tongue or in this case tip of my fingers ha ha ha . Anyway can't think of it but it is the dresses with all the fringe but I want this one to be a skirt. I think it will be cute.

Well, friends it is about time for me to go. Of course I could chat all day but I do have work to do but I will be back soon to tell you what this chaotic crocheter is up to, till then stay crafty!

Chaotic Crafter

Howdy do friends! You are probably wondering where I have been? Mostly crafting and quite chaotically lol. I am always surrounded by craft supplies. I work from my bed mostly because of my limited mobility. Around me is always containers filled with sewing materials, boxes of ribbon, buttons, flowers, and bows. There are also  rubber maid tubs and zippered storage bags full of yarn. There is measuring tape, mannequin bodies and heads, not to mention the crochet needles that are everywhere! I read once though that all artist were "messy". I think it is just that once the juices get flowing your mind is on one track and you are trying to create, design, discover, and not loose the momentum. I really can't explain it, when I am in the zone I am just in the zone. 

One a week I straighten up the mess and the process continues. This week I decided to clean a little deeper. You know, roll loose yarn into balls, color code the buttons, re-wrap the ribbon onto the spool, put all the needles together on a hook, and roll all the thread back onto the spool and put it in its box. In doing all of this I located several projects that were started and then forgotten. That is not unlike me. I would actually consider it my style. Yes, Chaotic can be a style. I will start something and sometimes half way through I get an idea on something else and I just have to start it, you know before the idea escapes me. Sometimes I am bored and that is what motivates me to start something new. Next thing I know I have like 5 projects going at once which sounds very unorganized but for me it is not. It is my organized mess and it helps to keep my creative juices flowing. I also rather like that since I will work on all 5 projects at once I tend to complete them all one behind the other which is a serious creativity rush. It looks like I will be pulling an all crochet weekend though to get some of these projects done. I also found a few finished items that never made it to their photo shoot so I did that the other day too. Here I will give you a sneak peek.....

So, what do you think? I will be uploading these to my etsy store over the next few days. Oh this reminds me about our last chat. Remember I mentioned making myself a hat, shawl, and purse set? Well, I was bursting with creativity last time and I made the hat that very night! Wearing the hat really motivated me to finish the shawl, and I finally finished that about two days ago! I still have to put buttons on it (it is more of a cape than a shawl) and I have to start the purse but I am excited to have completed something for myself. Yay me!

I wish I could sit and talk all day but I do have a business to run, after all isn't that what this is all about? You all should stop by my etsy page and let me know what you think?  Heart 2 Heart. I have really worked hard on it but I have not gotten much verbal feedback. You can send me a message there or check me out on fb Facebook and message me there. Either way I would love to hear you what you have to say. 

I am off to craft land. I have a beautiful corner to corner blanket to finish. I am hoping to share a photo of it the next time I post. It is about 3/4 the way complete. Come back and see me though because you never know what will be next in this chaotic crochet life.

Will the real project please stand up

When it comes to crochet I am the equivalent of a five year old child in a candy store, jumping from one project to another. I have been known to have up to 7 projects going at one time! Why all the chaos? The problem is...I hate to be bored and it could take time before a project begins to look like something recognizable. If you are not a crocheter let me just say that sometimes the moments get redundant. For this reason I tend to watch television while I crochet. I can get a project done real fast if I am watching a good show or movie. Other times my boredom does not stem from the fact that the project is redundant. Sometimes I am in the process of creating something fabulous when and idea hits me and I have to start on it right then! I just have to! I don't want to lose the idea (and I can't draw to save my life so sketching it is out of the question unless we crocheting stick figures). As longs as it is there in my  pile of "needs to be worked on" stuff I won't forget it and one day life will be crocheted into it.

This chaotic way of doing things does work for me (crazy at it sounds). The projects do not sit long. It nothing major is going on (usually it isn't) I will declare it a "nothing but crochet" weekend  and do nothing but crochet and watch netflix. For some reason this fuels me. As the pile gets smaller the more I want to crochet and get to the bottom, it's like a competition I am having with myself. I guess every artist has a method to their madness.

Currently I am working on a sailor dress for a baby girl but not an ordinary sailor dress. More like a sailor dress with a twist. I'm not revealing the twist until later. I have to give you something to look forward to. I am also working on a dog bed for my canine cousin Petey who lives with my his mother my cousin Lisa. My final project is a set. I have convinced myself it is time for me to make myself something nice so I have a hat, shawl, and purse set in the works. I plan for it to be amazing! We'll see if it actually happens though. I almost never finish anything I am making for myself. I always get distracted making stuff for others.

All this talk of crafting and creating has me itching to start a new project! Stay crafty and stop back by you never know what will happen in this chaotic crocheter's life. :)