Weird Sisters Wool Emporium is a fun site that I’ve been happy to buy from in the past – and I’m currently a subscriber of their Owl Post subscription box.
The main Weird Sisters website is a glorious display of fandom and geekery. It has collections of pins and stickers and hand dyed yarn colorways inspired by some of our favorite universes growing up, as well as entirely new topics and graphics that the owners created themselves. I highly recommend taking a look at the website, and while you’re there, let’s pop in and see what’s going on with their subscription box, Owl Post.
Owl Post usually comes in a bag instead of a box, but it’s a fun subscription to have if you’re interested in hand dyed fingering weight yarn. The subscription is billed monthly for 6 months (at which point you sub again). Each month an email is sent out with a selection of colorways that are inspired by the season or by nostalgia. I’m subscribed to the Time Turner version of the box, and every month I receive 100 grams of fingering weight yarn, 3 stitch markers, and a relevant sticker depending on what inspired the current box.
I have only purchased the available add-ons for the box once, but I enjoyed the options available. The Christmas box was zombie-themed, and I chose a green-to-red colorway in the spirit of the season called “Santa’s Lil’ Zombie.” The base box came with a sticker and three stitch markers, but I also added a small project bag, an enamel pin, and a cute emergency tin with crochet accessories inside. They were shipped separately from the base box but arrived in a timely manner. I use the small project bag for my fingerless glove projects, and the pin has found its home on one of my many pin boards. The crochet kit has useful items like a tape measure, needle, scissors, and an emergency hook (among other knickknacks) and it’s admittedly more of a novelty for me since I have a very robust collection of crochet tools already.
Owl Post is a fun way to grow my yarn collection (as if I don’t have enough yarn already), and I haven’t had any problems with it in the 6ish months that I’ve been subscribed. If I had to find something to complain about, it would probably be that many of their stitch markers are made for smaller knitting needles (though I’ve noticed the sizes increasing in the last couple boxes) and that they only offer fingering weight yarn. I use a lot of DK yarn for my projects, and while I love fingering weight and started my hand-dyed journey with fingering weight, I’ve grown into someone that just wants DK.
Luckily, they offer DK sizes on their website for their regular colorways, so I’m still able to buy fun, unique color combinations and support what is quickly becoming my favorite online yarn store.
In all honestly, I probably won’t renew Owl Post when my 6 month subscription renewal comes up in May, but that’s because I’ll have 12 skeins of fingering weight yarn to work on, and I also want to start buying up their DK weights without becoming completely overrun with yarn. I also am trying a couple different subscription boxes because I want to see what they all have to offer (Hooks & Needles is one I’m interested in, but I’m questioning the quality and price of their materials after seeing the same items listed on AliExpress and Temu for pennies) and potentially compare and contrast the different boxes and what I get for my money.
All in all, I do recommend trying out Owl Post and perusing Weird Sisters’ website for fun colorways and awesome project bags. I finally have a bag in every size, and they’ve become part of my daily rotation so that I have a project with me everywhere that I go.
Oh this is such a great idea, I’ve wondered about yarn subscription boxes for a while now. Do the yarns of the month fit together in a fade or are the completely different?
The boxes from each month aren’t meant to match each other (some other boxes do make their yarns match from month to month, but those are usually accompanied by a pattern to use all the yarn). There was one month where we could get a set of five 20gram yarn hanks together, and those yarns did fit together, but each individual month has its own theme.
I grabbed my yarns from the last few boxes so you can see the variety from this box. A few are in current projects so I can’t show them off, but they always have very unique yarns to choose from.