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

Long Over Due Blog Move part II

13 Jan 2012

Adminnie Stuffs

I feel a bit silly writing this, seeing as it will just appear as another post in a blog feed. But it also feels wrong not to write something. So airing on the side of feeling silly, here goes. Everything prior to this post was originally part of Crafting Keeps Us Sane, a blog I originally started with a friend, but that quickly morphed into just me, talking (mostly) about my knitting. Everything after this post is 100% Holly Chayes Designs, a place to talk about knitting, spinning, designing, and crafting in general. So there we have it, a bookmark of sorts. -Holly PS. Please remember to update any bookmarks, rss feeds, etc, (if you’d like.) No related posts.

New Yarn for the New Year

05 Jan 2012

FOs

Two new handspun skeins that I laid out to dry just before new years. “Ponycorns” Fiber Used: Bugga!Fiber, 4oz, 70% superwash merino, 20% cashmere, 10% nylon, colorway: ponycorns Fiber Source: The Sanguine Gryphon Yardage: 560 yards of a heavy lace weight Fiber Used: 100% superwash merino, 4oz Fiber Source: Biltmore Wool Barn Yardage: 260 yards of a thick and thin mostly fingering weight No related posts.

11 Shawls in 2011

02 Jan 2012

FOs, General Stuffs

All the shawls I knit in 2011. Zodiac le Plume Parterre Garden Malus domestica (the apple tree) Mrs. Peacock A-HA Mirror World Forest Stroll Gene Tierney, The Divine Tumbling Deco Spider Silk Dragons Ruff No related posts.

Welcome! I'm Holly Chayes.