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

FOs: Handspun

26 Jun 2011

FOs

I seem to be on a spinning jag lately. We’ll see how long this lasts, but for the moment at least, I’m considering joining the Tour de Fleece, so there may be lots more spinning to come. Fiber Used: 100g Wool- Corriedale Finn Rambouillet Cross Sheep Fiber Source: Spinners Hill while I was at Rhinebeck, this pass fall Yardage: ~120 yards Weight: thick and thin, from a fingering to a worsted in places Fiber Used: 20g total of two unknown fibers, one felt like a wool (the brown ply), and the other like a silk (the green, yellow and brown ply). Fiber Source: no idea, I think I got them as samples from somewhere Yardage: 80 yards Weight: overall a fingering weight, with some thicker spots and some thinner spots. Fiber Used: 55g of what felt like merino with some metallic sparkle mixed in Fiber Source: no idea Yardage: 108...

FO: Mirror World

25 Jun 2011

FOs

As promised this weekend’s finished object, and tomorrow there will be handspun. No buy now buttons, just some pretty pictures, and project stats. Pattern: My own (pattern available soon-ish) Yarn: Madelinetosh, Tosh Lace, colorway curiosity Yardage: one 950 yard (868 meter) skein Yarn Source: Knitty City Needles: 2.75 mm 36″ circulars Gauge: 6.5 sts/inch; 10 rows/inch I’ll also be playing with the layout of the blog this weekend, so if things start moving and changing (possibly drastically), that’s what’s going on. No related posts.

Parterre Garden

24 Jun 2011

Pattern Releases

July 12, 2012 update: “Parterre Garden” was originally part of The Sanguine Gryphon’s Summer 2011 pattern collection, and is now available directly from the designer (me!). The pattern is now available for purchase as a download for $8.00, either on Ravelry, or directly through the blog … buy now An old English parterre garden painted on string instead of canvas. Its overflowing beds of flowers and its twining, twisted paths depicted with lace and cables, rather than oils or pastels. A knit garden where skinny little cabled paths meander through, between and around beds stuffed full of lacy flowers. While two stick straight carriage lanes split one garden into three. This shawl is worked in one piece, beginning at the back of the neck and worked down to the hem. The paired increases are used to create three quarters of a square, allowing the shawl to sit neatly upon your...

Welcome! I'm Holly Chayes.