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

Administraaavia! Shawls and Moves

17 Jun 2013

Administraaavia!

Administraaavia!- the administrative bits and pieces. Except exaggerated, with a silly hat and a feather boa. Which makes it not so boring. thing 1: Lapidarius Lapidarius now available through the Verdant Gryphon! YAY! Grab the pattern, pick up some yarn, and have fun knitting. Thing 2: Website move Well, I’m aiming for more of a meander or a shift, than a MOVE. Because I’m kind of over moving for awhile (4 moves in 8 months will do that to you). So it’s a website shift from hollychayes.wordpress.com to just hollychayes.com. The old site should be redirecting to seamlessly to the new one, but if you run into any dead ends or stuckness, let me know. Thing 3: this week’s shawl geometry Post Because of the website move shift there are a bunch of people subscribed to the old blog, who aren’t currently subscribed to the new one. It takes...

the work in progress that wasn’t worked on

12 Jun 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. Poor shawl. It’s sat in it’s project bag, and ridden around in my purse all week, but it hasn’t been worked on. It didn’t even want to come out to take a photo. If you’d like more WIP Wednesday posts, from other bloggers, visit Tami’s blog. Related posts candy colored raindrops Who doesn’t like an almost FO? Wednesday Friday Mashup No related posts.

Shawl Geometry: Edge to Edge Square

10 Jun 2013

Shawl Geometry

This is the ninth post in a series about different shawl shapes and how to knit them. All the posts in the series can be found right here. Edge to Edge Square The Edge to Edge Square is knit flat and worked straight from the cast on edge to the bind off edge, with no increasing or decreasing. It’s one of the easiest shawl shapes there is to work, and because of this, it’s a fantastic shape for getting your feet wet adding stitch patterns to shawls. Calculating your cast on and row count Determine your final gauge, and desired dimensions. [Stitch gauge] x [desired width] = [# of sts to CO] [Row gauge] x [desired height] = [# of rows] Knitting Instructions CO [# of sts to CO]. R1: knit across. R2: purl across. Rep R1&2 until [# of rows] have been worked. Bind off loosely. If you want...

Welcome! I'm Holly Chayes.