Yarn and Ysolda

I'm a yarn addict. I live and breathe for the weekends when I can run to the yarn store and cuddle with all the beautiful skeins. I have a dream of living surrounded by yarn. That would be quite awesome. But really, what's the point of yarn if you don't have a design for it?Meet Ysolda Teague, a Scottish designer who has an alarming tendency to design beautiful and amazingly wearable things that I immediately swoon over and fall out of my chair for. Her designs are so...awesome. They're stylish, cute, eccentric, girly, and if I had to draw a girl to describe them, it would probably look exactly like Ysolda.

This is the first Ysolda pattern I fell in love with. The Little Birds sweater. A cardigan (that I would make a pullover) with cute little birds all over it. Isn't it awesome?The Vivian hoodie. These are only a few of her designs, there's plenty more out there if you go to her website. She's also written two books Whimsical Little Knits and Whimsical Little Knits 2, which you can purchase on her website (One day I know I will.) She also has a few free patterns published on her site and on Knitty.

Photos copyright Ysolda Teague, Caroline Bergeron and Sadie Dayton