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

Not Secret Knitting

23 May 2011

Uncategorized

Things seem to be getting wrapped up left and right around here, everything from the show I’ve been frantically working on (it opened Wednesday, closed Sunday and went smashingly), to the semester, to a bundle of knitting projects and patterns (most of which are secret, sorry), to some personal stuff that I’m glad to be letting go of. But since most this either isn’t very photogenic (the semester, and personal stuffs), or I forgot to take photos of (the show), or I can’t show you photos of (secret knitting), why don’t I show you what’s on my needles. Most of my knitting focus for the past couple of weeks has been directed at two projects. One of which needs to remain a secret (I’m starting to sounds like a broken record here). The other project, which I can show off, is currently in my Ravelry projects as the ‘Flashdance shawl,’...

We Have a Winner

04 May 2011

Giveaway

The random number generator chose comment #7. Congratulations Megan! Shoot me an email (holly AT chayes DOT org) or a pm on Ravelry (I’m Neme over there), to let me know which patterns you’d like. Thanks for the good wishes everyone! No related posts.

Quick Little Giveaway

14 Apr 2011

Giveaway

In honor of this blog’s one year anniversary yesterday (I’m a day late-oops), I’ll be holding a little giveaway. Leave a comment on any post by the end of the month, and be automatically entered to win any three of my individual patterns (your choice which ones) available though my Ravelry store* (basically any individual pattern except Zodiac le Plume). I’ll randomly draw a winner at the beginning of May. Cheers. *If you aren’t on Ravelry, use this link to see what patterns I have available. No related posts.

Welcome! I'm Holly Chayes.