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

Photos: Dragons Ruff

16 Jul 2012

FOs, Photo shoots

I don’t think I’ve really blogged about this shawl much. I sort of slipped it in at the end of last year as the last shawl for 11 shawls in 2011. The pattern has been patiently waiting for photos and a final edit, (it has probably been a couple months at this point, oops). But now that I have the photos edited, the pattern will be out tomorrow. Much like the knitting for Spider Silk, it was an easy, comforting knit, that didn’t take a huge amount of brain power, but wasn’t totally mind numbing either. Ravelry Project Page No related posts.

Zodiac le Plume, Parterre Garden, Gene Tierney Update

12 Jul 2012

Adminnie Stuffs, Pattern Releases

Zodiac le Plume, Parterre Garden, and Gene Tierney the divine, are now all available for purchase and download again. I’ve updated all their pattern pages and posts to reflect this. Parterre Garden Gene Tierney, the divine Zodiac le Plume Cheers! No related posts.

Photos: Parterre Garden

11 Jul 2012

FOs, Photo shoots

Originally published in partnership with The Sanguine Gryphon (sadly, no longer in existence), it was inspired by images of Parterre Gardens (but you probably could have guessed that.) The idea was to create small groupings of flowers contained within fences of cables and migrating decreases. Sections after section of flowers were placed next to and on top of each other to cascade down the shawl and create the idea of an overflowing garden. It turns out that this color is amazingly hard to photograph. It’s a combination of pastel greens, yellows, pinks, purples, and is really very beautiful (though not my normal colors), but tricky to photograph. Maybe at some point I’ll knit this again in a solid or semi-solid colorway. The pattern for this shawl, along with Zodiac le Plume and Gene Tierney, the divine (all originally published with the Sanguine Gryphon) with be republished tomorrow. Ravelry Project Page...

Welcome! I'm Holly Chayes.