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

Friday on a Monday

12 Nov 2012

FOs

It’s obviously not Friday, it’s Monday (boo!). But here’s an finished object for FO Friday anyway. So between all the various moves this summer I managed to misplace a whole heck of a lot of things, most of which I’ve since found, but some of which I haven’t. Somewhat impressively I managed to misplace every single hat I own. I’m positive I have some, somewhere in this apartment. I’ve torn this place apart multiple times trying to find them. They’re nowhere to be found. (And this is not a huge, or even very messy, apartment.) I eventually realized that it would probably be faster to knit a hat then find any of mine. So I did. Just in time for the first snow storm of the year. Pattern: My own Yarn: Madelinetosh Merino, colorway: unknown, its a very rich dark blue if you want to take a guess. Yardage: one...

100th

26 Oct 2012

Giveaway, Uncategorized

Edit: Giveaway over. Congratulations Britney! get in touch with me and let me know which pattern you would like. This is the 100th post on this blog, and that seems like something that should be marked in some way. I figure I can mark this moment either by saying something profound and meaningful, or by having a giveaway. And since for me today is a day of mundane tasks (laundry, cleaning, etc.), and I want a bit of pepping up, I’m going with the giveaway. So, leave a comment and I’ll put your name in the hat for a copy of one of my self-published patterns. Share the post (on twitter, facebook, etc.), then come back and leave another comment saying where you shared it, and I’ll give you a second entry. I’ll draw the winner Monday morning, not too early. The long and short of it: leave a...

-1 +1 equals 3

24 Oct 2012

what's in the works, WIP Wednesdays

WIP Wednesday two weeks in a row? Crazy. First off, I ripped the beginnings of the red shawl, but have yet to restart it. And so, the ball has been added back to the pile of projects waiting to be started. The pile is growing at an alarming rate. I’ve finished three sides, turned the corner and started down the last side of the border on my second Arrowhead Stole. If I don’t get distracted I could finish this week. If I get distracted, who knows (that pile of projects to be started is calling). I (re)started a hat last night. I changed my mind about the original cable design and had to cast on again with fewer stitches. But now I’m rethinking this version and I haven’t even started the pattern yet. Fingers crossed I don’t have to restart again, but we’ll see how it goes. This has been...

Welcome! I'm Holly Chayes.