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

FO: Asymmetrical Bluebells

14 Dec 2012

FOs

Pattern: Asymmetrical Bluebells-My own (the pattern will be available soon, I just got notes back from my technical editor ) Yarn: my own handspun. Fiber: unknown, 4oz, 50% superwash merino, 50% silk Yardage: one 750 yard (686 meter) skein Fiber Source: deep, deep stash Needles: 3.75 mm (US 5s) 40″ circulars If you’d like more FO Friday posts, visit Tami’s blog. No related posts.

Might Make it to 12?

12 Dec 2012

Uncategorized, what's in the works, WIP Wednesdays

So I have 3 shawls totally done. (Kora, Eirwen, and Ponycorns & Rainbow Fragments,). I have 2 shawls done, but I just haven’t talked about them. (The top two.) And 4 shawls waiting to be blocked. (The bottom four.) 1 shawl on the needles. That makes 10. Which is only 2 away from 12. Which is awfully close. Maybe I see 2 more shawls in my immediate future. If you’d like more WIP Wednesday posts, visit Tami’s blog. No related posts.

12 Shawls in 2012 Progress

08 Dec 2012

FOs

In my last post I talked about finishing one final shawl before the end of the year, and I mentioned having no idea of how many shawls I’ve completed this year. And since I don’t know how many I’ve completed, I can’t know how close I am to my goal of completing 12 this year, (I finished 11 last year). So it’d probably be a good idea to count them, huh. 1. Ponycorns & Rainbow Fragments 2. Eirwen 3. Kora Well, that’s sobering. But here’s the (kind of) embarrassing part: I have 4 shawls waiting to be blocked. And 2 shawls that I just haven’t talked about. Yea… I guess I’ll be frantically blocking shawls over the next couple weeks. If you’d like more WIP Wednesday posts, visit Tami’s blog. No related posts.

Welcome! I'm Holly Chayes.