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

playing with playing and swatches

31 May 2013

FOs

I’m always working on some project or another, which means I often have FOs and new designs to share. You can see all my FOs … here … and all my designs … here. They’re back… I had hoped that even more swatches would be the final round of green swatches. But I guess that was not to be. I’m exploring the idea of a Shawl Geometry II, (and maybe a 3). Taking the ideas and the shapes in Shawl Geometry even further. So I’m playing with increases and decreases turning things on their head shifting lines and shapes cutting shapes in halves, quarters, thirds varying degrees and angles new ways to make old shapes and playing with playing Playing with playing. I think I like it. You can learn more about Shawl Geometry here, and here. If you’d like more FO Friday posts, from other bloggers, visit...

candy colored raindrops

29 May 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. It’s rainy, cold, and very much not like the end of May outside. But I have a shawl that looks a little like a sea anemone sitting on my desk, and tea that makes the whole room smell like cinnamon. So I guess it’s not too bad. If you’d like more WIP Wednesday posts, from other bloggers, visit Tami’s blog. Related posts Who doesn’t like an almost FO? First Third of a Shawl Shawl Geometry Intro No related posts.

It’s Here!

28 May 2013

what's in the works

and I’m dancing around my apartment! It’s the ebook for the Shawl Geometry blog series. You can learn more about the ebook, and buy it over here. But why should I buy the ebook when I could just follow the blog? A couple reasons actually. immediacy: you get the FULL Shawl Geometry series. Immediately. The blog series is scheduled to finish the last week of July. When you buy the ebook you get it all right now. convenience: you can access it offline. Print pages to stick in your knitting bag, or scribble notes all over. ease: you don’t have to dig through tons of blog posts to find the shape you’re looking for. In the ebook they’re all in one place, right at your finger tips. and for $23 it’s WAY easier than reinventing the wheel. Or click here to get more information about the Shawl Geometry...

Welcome! I'm Holly Chayes.