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

Olympic Knitting

03 Aug 2012

General Stuffs

While I’m not actually participating in the Ravellinic Games (I want to get my WIPs under control not add to them) I do need something to knit while watching the Olympics. With 5 shawls and 1 sweater already on the needles I’ve got plenty of options. But my goal is to finish two of the shawls (plus 1). The plus 1 is this shawl (Kora). The knitting was down a couple weeks ago, but then it sat around until the first day of the games when I finally got around to blocking it. Which is why it’s the plus one. But in those couple of weeks I started writing the pattern in an attempt to get better at not letting pattern writing sit around waiting. That said I’ll be having this test knit soon, and if you’d be interested in test knitting let me know. Over the past week of...

Photos: Mrs Peacock

23 Jul 2012

FOs, Photo shoots

Mrs Peacock was the second shawl I ever knit in this semi-circular/crescent type shape that I simply fell in love with (the first was Zodiac le Plume) and have used a bunch since (Tumbling Deco, Mirror World, Ponycorns and Rainbow Fragments, and #2 the one with a million beads). I think this shape also started my interest with less traditional shawl shapes, (the 3/4 square, squares and circles with slits in them, etc.). I think they tend to stay on better, lay a bit nicer, and tend to be a bit more intriguing to knit and design. Ravelry Project Page And thus ends the almost full month of photos of shawls on a mannequin. Thanks for sticking around. 🙂 No related posts.

FOs: Landslide & Incarnation

19 Jul 2012

FOs

Both skeins have now been washed and dried, so I have a better idea of weight and yardage. Fiber Used: 4oz Polwarth, colorway “landslide” Fiber Source: Happy Hands Yarns bought at Rhinebeck Yardage: 490 yards Weight: about a heavy lace weight/light fingering 2ply Fiber Used: 4oz BFL, colorway “Incarnation, the lighter” Fiber Source: Fibernymph Dye Works Yardage: 396 yards total; about 110yrds of the blue/purple, 166yrds of the light purple, 120yrds of the grey Weight: about a fingering weight navajo ply No related posts.

Welcome! I'm Holly Chayes.