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: Triangle with Wings #1

27 May 2013

Shawl Geometry

This is the seventh post in a series about different shawl shapes and how to knit them. All the posts in the series can be found right here. Triangle with Wings #1 from the top down The second variation on the traditional right angle triangle has “wings,” which makes the top edge of the shawl curve up around the shoulders helping the shawl stay in place more easily. This type of shawl is also occasionally called a heart shaped shawl, but I’ve always seen wings rather than a heart. To shape a Triangle with Wings, you work the first half of your shawl as if you were working a Right Triangle, then at your halfway point, you increase the rate at which you work the shaping along your top edge, from every other row, to every row. This additional shaping produces the wings of your shawl. Knitting Instructions CO 7sts....

sometimes we need a reminder

25 May 2013

General Stuffs, thoughts & things

This is for makers. It’s a reminder. It’s something we all know. But sometimes we forget. The thing that makes an artist an artist is the act of making art. It’s not past art, and how great it was. Or future art, and how great it will be. It’s in progress art, and what you’re making, now. The thing that makes an artist an artist isn’t the awards or accolades (rightly deserved or not) it’s the act of making art. Part of us knows this. But sometimes we need a reminder. The act of making art, makes us an artist. No related posts.

future FO

24 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. but this project is a future FO not a right now FO. Almost finishing something obviously means I get to start something new. Right? The colors are a little bit teeth-rotting-sugar-candy-sugar-colored, but that’s what I love about them. If you’d like more FO Friday posts, from other bloggers, visit Tami’s blog. Related posts FO: Lapidarius Even More Swatches Who doesn’t like an almost FO? No related posts.

Welcome! I'm Holly Chayes.