Last up date 2th of September 2016 next open on Saturday, and Sunday the 1st and 2nd October in Wheelton near Chorley Lancashire. Anew testimonial for one of Carole's Hand knitted ganseys. This years create a ...........out of Fibre competition for the Fibre Fest announced. More stall holders added to the Burscough Fibre Festival page.
Colin has added a new photo gallery, not a lot in it yet, but he's working at the Railways Gallery.
Burscough Bridge Train station has lost it's ticket office, last day was 30th June 2016
Read Capt col's blog up dated 31.7.16., the hunt for the Non league paper at Barrowford,
PLEASE RING 07931 356204 to find out where we are, and when we are open.
Boatmans Gansey Photo Art Exclusive Hand Kniited Garments Wool
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Please note that because we are on the canal, and thus can't always be confident of a mobile phone connection we can't take card payments....cash or cheques are great.
We are next open back in Wheelton on Saturday the
1st and Sunday the 2nd of October from 10-4
This is a modern boat mans gansey created for Alison in Mid Wales for her husbands birthday.
Alison kindly sent us this picture and the comment,
“Thought you would like to see the gansey on. He absolutely loves it! I think it may have to be surgically removed for washing! Thank you”
Alison
The North West Fibre arts trail 2016.
From this Friday the 30th of September for two weeks until the 14th of October a number of Northwest based fibre artists and producers have got together to form a trail around the north west with various goings on from workshops,
On that day Cathy Wright aka Lazy Kate is running a yarn crawl from Knit Wise in Ormskirk leaving about 09.30, with Kate doing some spreading of information about colour theory, then they are coming to visit us before going on to Rainy Williamsons on the Little Lancashire small holding near Bolton where there will be some stick spindle spinning for people to have a go at.
The trip will be costing about £13.50 not including lunch that will probably be at a pub somewhere along the way.
For further details and to book your place please ring Knitwise on 01695 580590.
We will then move on to moor and be open outside Botany Bay for the weekend of 8th and 9th of October before again moving on to Adlington to be open for three days on Thursday the 13th, Friday the 14th and Saturday the 15th, open 10-4.
Don't forget your teddy
More information is on the Northwest Fibre arts trail website
http://www.northwestfibreartstrail.co.uk/
and more information is on Face book
https://www.facebook.com/northwestfibreartstrail/?fref=ts
A couple of Saturday's ago on the 17th of September a chap, Bryan Lomax asked if he could make a short video about Carole and us, and the results is a U tube video "The Knitter"
5th Burscough Fibre Fest Details here
Carole now has a Esty shop here
and we've called it "Colour by Carole"
as at times we feel there isn't quite enough colour in the world
We are now back in Lancashire though it will take us a few weeks to get back to Burscough.
We've been to J C Bretts and had a bit of a stocking up session, mainly to replenish
stocks, especially of red green and white as people start thinking of Christmas
knits but there is also a couple of new shades of Aran in there. All will be
unpacked and on sale in Foulridge this coming weekend.
new shades of West Yorkshire Spinners 4 ply Signature yarn now on board,
If you want to call outside of these hours please feel free to give us a ring, 07931 356204
Come and join us for a great day out, see, squidge, feel, touch and buy some great yarns, but before you come create something about Halloween for the competition...
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is 200 years old this year so we are staying on the canal all year, with plans to cruise The Wool Boat from Burscough towards Leeds and back.
The Canal and River Trust are heading up the canal long celebrations with details here
In 1816 the Leeds and Liverpool canal was completed,
to help commemorate the 200th anniversary Carole is
now taking orders for her "LL200 Gansey" Details here
We have recently updated our Wool and Yarns Page to include "Teds Mates Rates"
Remember if you bring your teddy to meet our Brindley Bear
you'll get Brindley's mate's rate's on your yarn bill.
Have you thought about a personal appointment?
On a few occasions we have arranged a "Personal Appointment".
We arrange a day and time for you to visit "Emma Maye" the worlds only floating yarn shop, and so you can have a relaxing hour picking out patterns and yarn's with assistance from Carole the knitter, and we'll even give you a brew.
Please feel free to ring us on 07931 356204, e-mail us, message us, what ever and we'll look forwards to welcoming you on boardCapt Col is now on Twitter
The Burscough Fibre Festival's archive details here
Following Christmas Caroles order books for bespoke hand knitted garments are now not quite as full, so now would be a good time to get in touch with us for a uniquie hand knitted creation.Over three years ago we started The Wool Boats knit and natter group in The Slipway, and since then there has been a meeting nearly every Thursday since, around the Burscough area, at the moment in The Farmers Arm's on New Lane. The meeting still goes on even if we're not there, so feel free to join them from 1pm.
We are now members of The Roving Canal Traders Association as we rove the canals
Shop opening times and Cruising plan here.
For service outside shop opening hours please feel free to ring us or e-mail us.
Carole is now providing knitting classes in a unique enviroment, on board Emma Maye, full details here
Our main yarn supplier, J.C. Bretts have their own web site, here.
This details all the yarns they produce and whilst we carry good stocks of alot of their range what we havn't got in stock we can order in for you, and remember that we will not demand that you take all of the pack that our supplies are delivered in, if you just need one ball thats all you'll need to complete your projects.
If you would like to be put on our weekly text messaging service please let us know by texting us on our contact number.
As always if your making a special trip give us a bell to make sure where we are.
07931 356204
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If you cant visit us this weekend, why not try searching on
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