I have seen so many lovely Birches on different blogs lately. Take a look at this one and this one. And there are so many more. So of course I also want one! My LYS only carries a few colors of KSH, and I went there the day before leaving on vacation. Very luckily they had just 3 skeins left of the color I wished for, - Jelly! It's darker and richer live than shown on the Rowan page. So here we are:

The pattern, the yarn, everything about Birch is bewitching! The cast-on of all those stitches and the first pattern-repeat required some stitch-markers and a certain amount of concentration. But after that the pattern was easy to learn by heart - and made this knit a real joy! As much as I like the process of making this lovely bundle of fiberleaves - I also can't wait to finish it and be able to use it!
These are really little birch leaves!:

When not knitting Birch I have been working on this:

Those are front and back, done. And first sleeve in progress.

I might be the last one in Blogland working on Klaralund. It's my first one and it's for my oldest daughter. It might not, as indicated, be the last one, because I have more Silk Garden in my stash AND I have a jacket knitted last year, using Silk Garden that I plan to rip and reknit into Klaralund. Crazy? Yes - but even more crazy to let a wonderful amount of fiber rest in the closet because it turned out too big and not-to-my-satisfaction. More on that later, much later!

Looking at it now - this entry turned out quite Azur-blue/green! Guess my stay near the Mediterranean was quite an inspiration - also to my knitting!