Liz Capik is the dyer extradordinaire whom you might know from her earlier venture Apple Tree Knits.  She recently started Wull Studios and the story behind the change is fascinating and well worth reading here.

I contacted her recently and am delighted that we now have a working wholesale relationship.  :-)

So when I saw this new Polarlicht pattern by Ute Nawratil that needed a gradiently dyed lace weight yarn, it was to Liz that I turned.

More details below....

Please be sure to get the pattern itself from the designer on her Ravelry page here.  What we offer for this kit is a cake of Liz's delicious yarn.

The Design

Here is what Ute writes:

For the ‘Polarlicht’ (’Northern Lights’) you should have a particularly beautiful gradient cake with a length of around 1000 meters.

This will allow to show off particularly well the different wave variations that make up this crescent-shaped shawl. But, of course, you can also use different colors for the individual sections.

Measurements: before washing 184 x 55 cm, afterwards 200 x 63 cm (light blocking)

The Yarn and Colorway

Our kits do not offer the same yarn that the designer used for her original shawl.  You can see ours in the inset photo on the top righthand corner of the first picture on this page and then again below that.

The yarn is a new one for Liz, one she called Meadow Lace.  It is made up of 65% silk + 35% linen and has 975 yards/ 150g ball.  She calls this her Jumbo ball of lace weight. 

It has been "lovingly hand dyed in NJ, USA with 100% GOTS certified, low-impact dyes."

The colorway is called Awe and is a gradient with gradually changing colorways moving froma goldenrod into a coral into a fuchsia into a magenta and finally a violet. (Or vice versa, as some balls are wound in the opposite direction.)

Important note:

This yarn ball is, tbh, less than the 1,000m (about 1,093 yards) that Ute recommends.  Ute does give alternative endings for the shawl if you run out before the very end.

I quote her here: "Cakes with the same yardage may run differently if they have different weights! At the end of the instructions I describe an alternative way to finish the shawl if you feel that you will run out of yarn too soon."

Alternatively, if you feel you want a bit more yarn, we do have some mohair/silk in a deep rich purple that would also look very fine with this.  Take a look at the third photo on this page. 

We offer a kit with this as an addition via the drop-down menu above.  The yarn is Ella Rae's Silky Kid and is 75% super kid mohair + 24% silk with 219 yards/ 25g.  The colorway is called Clematis.