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

summer is here, and it is too hot to knit, so it’s editing and planning instead

Each Wednesday, I post a snapshot of the projects I’m working on, and where my brain is at. Last week when I finished up weaving in the million and a half ends on my many-color colorwork sweater, I had intended to continue taking advantage of being in the mood to weave in ends (which happens once in a never-moon), and move on to another knitting project that was all done except for the many ends to weave in. But then summer came to NYC, brought with it heat and humidity, and touching wool was a non-starter. So I’ve been focusing away on the edits and rewrites for Shawl Geometry Book Three, plus a new project that I’m really excited about (if you enjoyed the Self-Made Wardrobe Project from a couple years ago, I think you’ll like this one too) – and of course, not melting. No related posts.

A five-minute dress alteration, finishing a multi-year knitting project, and working on endless edits

Each Wednesday, I post a snapshot of the projects I’m working on, and where my brain is at. How many ends can one sweater have? It turns out this sweater has 4 weeks worth of ends. But all the ends are woven in! Now this sweater just needs a quick bath and it’ll be finished. Considering I started this sweater at the end of 2014, it’s about time. I also knocked out a quick alteration from my pile of works-in-progress. And am continuing, what feels like, a never ending editing process. No related posts.

how many yarn ends can one sweater have?

Each Wednesday, I post a snapshot of the projects I’m working on, and where my brain is at. I’ve been avoiding weaving in the ends of this sweater for years. And it turns out I’ve been avoiding it for good reason – it’s the sweater with ends that never end, which is one of the larger downsides to knitting intense colorwork. I’ve been weaving in a handful of ends here and there, because I think if I tried to weave them all in at once I would hate this sweater halfway through. That seems to be working (slowly) but consistently, and hopefully the ends will end eventually. No related posts.