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

Shawl Geometry: Half Circles

22 Jul 2013

Shawl Geometry

This is the sixteenth post in a series about different shawl shapes and how to knit them. All the posts in the series can be found right here. Today we have long post about half circles. You can work a half circle either using the wedge, the pi circular shawl shaping, or the concentric circles of increases, simply cut everything in half. 1/2 Wedge Circle from the top down To create a 1/2 Wedge Circle, you work half of the wedges that form the full Wedge Circle. Since the full Wedge Circle is an octagon, made up of eight wedges, then the 1/2 Wedge Circle is formed from four wedges. Knitting Instructions CO 8sts. {4 border sts + 4 sections} R1: k2, (pm, yo, k1) 4 times, k2. R2: purl across. R3: k2, (sm, yo, k to marker) 4 times, k2. R4: purl across. Rep R3&4 to desired dimensions. Bind...

I see you Friday.

19 Jul 2013

FOs, thoughts & things

Hello Friday. I see you. And I’ve knit a whole round since Wednesday. Which, when each round is 1000+ stitches, isn’t as measly as it feels to say (well, type.) I’m still looking for some sort of (non sucky) Friday “ritual.” I’d love to hear any thoughts or ideas. But I’d rather not have shoulds. ie. “you should…” No related posts.

mostly annoyed, instead of completely annoyed

17 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. Only knit one or two rounds of progress in the past couple weeks, and haven’t touched this shawl in days. But I’m playing with not being completely and totally annoyed by this. Just mostly annoyed. Either way, it seems to be helping. If you’d like more WIP Wednesday posts, from other bloggers, visit Tami’s blog. No related posts.

Welcome! I'm Holly Chayes.