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: Ponycorns and Rainbow Fragments

21 Feb 2012

FOs

It’s not the FO I thought I’d have for you, but I’ll take it. I think once my current projects are under control I’m going to go back to my “only one lace weight project at a time” rule, because even with this one done, I still have two on the needles and so neither of them is getting much attention. Pattern: My own (pattern available once I get the second sample off the needles, and the pattern written up) Yarn: my own handspun. Fiber: Bugga!Fiber, 4oz, 70% superwash merino, 20% cashmere, 10% nylon, colorway: ponycorns Yardage: one 560 yard (512 meter) skein Fiber Source: The Sanguine Gryphon Needles: 3.25 mm (US 3s) 40″ circulars No related posts.

Growing In Leaps and Bounds

19 Feb 2012

General Stuffs

If I didn’t know better I’d say elves were involved, but alas that’s not the case, just me, a lot of reading, and a lot of movies. I’m now on the third ball (and last) ball of yarn for The Big Orange Blob. I knit through almost all of the second ball last weekend, during a textbook reading marathon, but it has been put on hold until I can chart out the next section. Once I get it charted out, I don’t think the actual knitting will take too long. Maybe I can get it done this week? It’s been awhile since I finished anything big, and it would be nice to have this off the needles. But charting and finishing The Big Orange Blob, will depend entirely on if I can rip my attention away from Ponycorns and Rainbow Fragments. I’m just knitting till I run out of yarn,...

One Row at a Time

06 Feb 2012

FOs, General Stuffs

brings you to the end of the first ball of yarn. gets you partway through the waist decreases. and finishes up secret knitting. No related posts.

Welcome! I'm Holly Chayes.