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

No Swatches

10 Apr 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. There are no swatches in this post! Whooo! I finished those over the weekend. So I cast on a new shawl without feeling any sort of guilt. It’s a rectangular stole with various sized diamond motifs, knit out of 1 skein of The Verdant Gryphon’s Mithril, colorway “Interior.” Love the yarn. Love the color. Love the pattern. LOVE! But I’ve also been working on my shawl out of The Plucky Knitter. It’s been growing. A couple stitches here, a couple rows there. I’m doing a very subtle garter st/ stockinette st pattern, so it’s great tv knitting for shows and movies that I actually want to pay attention to. The patterning will be more...

Even More Swatches

08 Apr 2013

FOs

I’m always working on some project or another, which means I often have FOs and new designs to share. I usually share these on Fridays as part of FO:Friday, but sometimes I need the weekend to catch up. When that happens I share my FO the following Monday, because who doesn’t like a little bit of Friday with their Monday? You can see all my FOs … here … and all my designs … here. The second and final (fingers crossed) round of green swatches are blocking as we speak. Related posts More Swatches Swatches and Shawls oodles of green No related posts.

oodles of green

03 Apr 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. I’m not normally a huge fan of green, maybe I just want spring to get here, but on my desk alone I can see, the inside of my favorite mug is green, lots of green paper for note taking. I have pens and rulers that are both green, and a huge stack of green swatches staring me in the face. I’ve been knitting full steam ahead on this pile of swatches, but at least the end is in sight. You can see the blocked ones on the left and the unblocked pile on the right. And my new shawl (with it’s super bright green stripes) is at the point where I’m going to start...

Welcome! I'm Holly Chayes.