Holly Chayes

Welcome! I'm Holly Chayes.

This online space has been around in one form or another since 2010, it focuses on making, creativity and living a curious life, plus a lot of clothing.

Some of the projects I've worked on in the past 10+ years include...

Talking About Clothes with Holly Chayes

An interview podcast that's all about clothing (and also, not *really* about clothing at all). Find all the details and listen to conversations about comfort, style, change and shopping here. Or search for Talking About Clothes with Holly Chayes wherever you listen to podcasts.

Who Wears Who?

The Self-Made Wardrobe Project

Predecessor to Who Wears Who, a year-long challenge in 2014/2015 where I only wore clothes I made. That year would have been a lot easier if the clothes had magically made themselves. Learn more about The Self-Made Wardrobe Project and explore the archives here.

The Shawl Geometry Book Series

Enough shawl shapes to keep you knitting for a lifetime. A multi-year exploration of math, shape and space in knitting, where I documented traditional shawl shaping, and iterated on those traditions to create new recipes of shawl shaping. Ultimately this lead to 75+ shapes, and 400+ pages of common and uncommon shawl shaping instructions. This project was inspired by a dozen individual shawl designs, each encapsulating a love of geometric lace design. You can find The Shawl Geometry Series here.

Thank you for being here with me. –Holly

this past week there was, next week there will be

26 Jul 2013

FOs, Hello Friday

It’s Friday again. What the hell, it was just Wednesday! …grumble grumble grumble…days of the week…grumble grumble… I loved Joan’s comment from last week about planning for the coming week on Friday, instead of over the weekend, or on Monday morning. And the bit about “being at peace with the past week.” Adore! So, this past week there was: a long post about half circles. the pattern for Lapdiarius is now available here, and on Ravelry! Shawl Geometry II went back to K for more edits. I’m now in the middle of the bind off for this shawl. Squee! museum visit. work-ey things. started a draft for a book about mutant shawl shapes. blocked, photographed and mailed the grey shawl. Next week there will be: the end of the month (goodbye July, hello August) more work-ey things. a post about crescents and the conclusion for the Shawl Geometry blog series...

2, 3 rows to go.

24 Jul 2013

what's in the works, WIP Wednesdays

I’m always working on some project or another, and most weeks I talk about what I’m working on Wednesdays as part of Tami’s WIP Wednesday project. You can see past WIP Wednesdays … right this way. Maybe 4 or 5 if I push it. Fingers crossed. If you’d like more WIP Wednesday posts, from other bloggers, visit Tami’s blog. No related posts.

Lapidarius

23 Jul 2013

Pattern Releases

Lapidarius is now available for purchase as a download, for $8.00 either on Ravelry, or directly through the blog …buy now Lapidary– a person who works with precious stone. Also, of/relating to gemstones. From the Latin lapidarius. This design came out of playing with diamonds. Playing with the way they fit together, the way you can build larger diamonds out of smaller diamonds, and the way you can carve smaller diamonds out of larger ones. Lapidarius is a rectangular shawl with a cast on edge at one end, a bind off edge at the other and 12 repeats of the 48 row repeat in between. Yarn: 750 yards (686 meters), lace weight Shown in: The Verdant Gryphon, “Mithril”; 750 yards (686 meters)/skein, 1skein of “Interior” Needles: US size 2.5 (3.00 mm) 32 inch (80 cm) circular or size needed to obtain gauge Notions: tapestry needle, US 3 (3.25 mm) or...

Welcome! I'm Holly Chayes.