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?

A personal style coaching and content practice devoted to helping you own and wear your clothes intentionally, instead of being worn by them. Discover your own style guidance, and learn more about the practice of intentional style at WhoWearsWho.com

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

 
 
 

casting on a Banaue Breeze

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28 Sep 2016
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Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on, and where my brain is at. Last week’s contemplating turned into this week’s sweater. I cast on for a Banaue Breeze by Stephen West. I’m knitting it from three skeins of Malabrigo’s lace weight yarns from my recently unpacked yarn stash. The plan is to color block, which I think will work really well on this side to side sweater. And I will at some point get back to my Lady Bat sweater. But right now (between unpacking, and editing) stockinette stitch knit in the round is exactly the meditative knitting my brain wants. No related posts.

I never realized I had this much stuff…

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14 Sep 2016
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Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on, and where my brain is at. Just like last week, I have piles of boxes, and clothes, and fabric, and books, and paper, and yarn. Everywhere. This week has been a lot of “why did I keep that?!” combined with shuffling piles around, and slowly getting a sense of where to put everything. After months of living out of one suitcase, and one purse, suddenly having boxes and boxes of things is very overwhelming. But I’m chipping away at my piles of things. And I hope it gets less overwhelming soon. In knitting, I’m starting to unpack some of my yarn, and am finding myself browsing Ravelry’s pattern database. Nothing has jumped onto my needles yet, but I’m contemplating maybe casting on for something. In writing, the first and second Shawl Geometry books have come back from their respective...
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About – Holly Chayes

I’m Holly, a style and wardrobe consultant.
In short, I fix broken wardrobes.

In long(er), I work with you to bring your clothing into alignment with who you are, and who you feel you are meant to be.

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