I first came across sKNITches at The Loopy Ewe and immediately bought up four skeins of their self-striping Syncopation.

Then, a few months ago, a friend tipped me off that the sKNITches Cinema Club was open for subscriptions and I jumped.

September: I am the Arm

The Lowdown:

The Theme:

It’s a Cinema club, so each month’s yarn and goodies is based on a different film. Each month comes with a popcorn box (very cute touch), a little movie poster and a row of ‘admit one’ tokens.

September’s film was Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me, October was ET, November was Cast Away and December was Little Shop of Horrors.

The theme was really cohesive and you could tell that sKNITches worked really hard at making everything that was in the package was related to the theme and it really made the club a lot of fun.

The Yarns:

September contained a GORGEOUS colourway called ‘I am the Arm’, made up of a range of reds and black on a 70% superwash, 30% silk base. Just fantastic.

October was a self-striping colourway called ‘Phone Home’ made up of brown, pink, white and blue on a superwash merino base.

November’s base was 50% superwash merino, 50% tencel, in a great beachy colourway called ‘Wilson’ made up of browns, sand and blues.

December’s was a self-striping colourway called ‘Feed Me Seymour!’ on a superwash merino base.

November: Phone Home

The Goodies:

Four months meant four gorgeous skeins of yarn and associated booty. The first month contained a stitch marker and some popcorn shaped mini soaps. The second month contained a glow stick, reeces pieces, and a wee halloween candy bowl/container. The third month contained a set of seaside tea light candles. The fourth, my favourite month, contained a pair of walking, chattering teeth, a wee venus fly trap (no one tell Aussie Customs, though), a candy cane and a little flower stitch marker

The Price:

The club cost $165, plus an extra $7 for postage to Australia. It’s one of the more expensive clubs that I’m currently a member of, but I do think it was good value.

As I mentioned, you could tell that a lot of thought and effort went into the packages each month, plus they were posted with delivery confirmation.

Two of the four yarns were what I would consider premium yarns. Actually, the silk content of ‘I am the Arm’ bumps it up into the luxury yarn category for me. As someone who dyes self-striping yarns, I think that the superwash merino being self-stripers makes them premium yarns, too.

The extras were nice. I really love the popcorn boxes and they’re being recycled into our fathers’ Christmas hampers this year (along with movie tickets and treats) but the rest? I LOVED the final month but I wasn’t that keen on the candles and the rest of it was kind of disposable, to me, but they really came together into a fun package that has been the highlight of my mail box each month.

November: Wilson

The Conclusion:

For my money, the club was great value.

Any communication I had with sKNITches was prompt and polite and very professional. The range of yarns was a delight to experience, the colourways were appropriate to the films they were supposed to represent (although Pants thought the Wilson colourway should have been more… volleyball coloured - I’m glad it wasn’t!) and the extras were thoughtful and interesting.

The fact that one of the colourways was self-striping and it’s more or less the perfect club for the Spiraling crew.

When do signups for the next one open?

Five skeins out of five.