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

 
 
 

sweaters and sunsets

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24 Feb 2016
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Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on, and where my brain is at.  This past week in the Bay Area has been absolutely stunning – warm and sunny. I’ve spent a lot of time walking and wandering, knitting in parks, and enjoying beautiful sunsets each evening. I’m gearing up to fly back east on Friday, and while I suspect that the weather will come as a bit of a shock, I’m also ready to be back. I’ve finished the waist decreases on my sweater, and am thinking I’ll be able to get through a significant chunk of the hip increases on my flight. No related posts.

knitting, planning, dreaming & scheming (plus an exhausting train ride)

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17 Feb 2016
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Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on, and where my brain is at.  Where’s my brain at? My brain is tired. An 18 hour train ride that was pleasant and possibly even delightful with rotating seat mates who were all quite considerate – was exhausting with one continuous seat mate who would not stop talking… On the plus side – I got an astonishing amount of knitting done (and listened to a ridiculous number of podcasts). I’m probably half way through the waist decreases on my sweater. And while the tired introverted part of me is insisting that this is no upside for that many hours of chatter, a small part of me is loving how (relatively) quickly this sweater is knitting up. Anyway, before my brain started frying, I wrote this on Instagram about my last week in Portland: “The past week in #PDX has...
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train rides & yarn shops

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10 Feb 2016
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Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on. Train rides are great for knitting. And long leisurely train rides with beautiful sunrises, through snowy winter wonderlands, curled up inside a warm train (with no wifi), can get you almost all the way through the raglan increases on your lace weight sweater. Portland has been amazing and does it have a ton of yarn shops! I mean, I knew there were a lot (mainly the reason I came to Portland) – but there are a whole fuck ton, and all of them have their own personalities – which is lovely. There are stunning window displays, and super friendly shop dogs, and walls of cones of yarn, and cardboard sheep, and amazing needle felting, and local dyers galore, and, and, and… Luckily, most shops are heavy on the fingering & sock weight yarn, but have pretty small selections of...
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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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