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    New range of sock yarn aboard and for sale, James C Brett's Funny Feetz, pic to follow or why not come and see for yourself ? £6 100gram.  

  We are open from 10-3 today outside The Slipway (L40 0RN) on Crabtree Lane, near Burscough. We will then follow this up with a weekend near Burscough Wharf L40 5RZ open 10-3 on Saturday and Sunday the 17th November.

    

            Just added to our on line shop, a adults hat knitted from "Fairground"

 

Brindley the Wool Boat's mascot sits atop a pile of yarn in a range of shades of orange. 

Yarn from various winding houses, J C Brett's, West Yorkshire Spinner's, DMC. 

 

         This years West Yorkshire Spinners Christmas sock yarn, "Fairy Lights" is now available aboard The Wool Boat.   

 

   This years yarn is called "Fairy Lights" and is a limited edition yarn. Winwick Mum, Christine Perry has created a new pattern to go with the yarn and a free copy comes with each purchase of the "Fairy Lights" yarn. 

  It is recommended that a 2.5mm circular needle is used to knit the socks and we have Knit-Pro ones in stock as well.  

      New babies cardigan and hat set added to our shop.  

      Do you or have you considered using "Knit Pro" needles? we carry a small range of straight and circular needles, and we can order in what you would like at very competitive prices.  

  The Wool Boat has a new range of chunky yarn aboard, J C Bretts "Tranquil" at £3.75 per 100 gram and we have the patterns to support your creating. Details here.

 

     Carole has knitted a adults hat from shade no TQ03 and says the yarn is nice and soft easy to knit with and knits up quickly.

    The hat is now available from our web shop.

      

We can now take card payments, machine arrived yesterday, so you may have to be patient while we get used to it!            

       The only Wool Shop in West Lancashire?

    Open regularly on the canal, providing it's not blowing a gale when it's not safe to move the boat, or we are caught in the ice!               

             Two new child's tops added to our shop  

               

   We have some new shades of Opal sock yarn aboard now, about 35 shades available, at £8 per 100gram ball picture here  

     

   

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Colour by Carole is Carole's Etsy's Shop here

                                  

           West Yorkshire Spinners 4 ply sock yarn 

     

West Yorkshire spinner's signature 4 ply, ideal for sock knitting pink basket on The Wool Boat 11.3.18

The shade's are 529, Cherry Drop, 547 is called Candyfloss, 510 Cayenne Pepper

845 Pink Flamingo, 989 Candy Cane, and 545 Sarsaparilla, and we have a further 24 shades available.

The yarn is 75% Wool of which 35% is Bluefaced Leicester and 25% Nylon, so ideal for sock knitting.

100gram balls

400m/437 yards

3.25mm needles

Tension 10cm/4inch square 36 rows by 28 sts

Cost at 2.3.17 £7.25 per 100 gram ball.   

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If you are making a special trip please give us a ring to make sure we are open, and of course we can always arrange a personal appointment to suit you and us if you can't make it to our planned opening place.

Colin and Carole The Wool Boat October 2018.  

The Wool boats mascot "Brindley" has some new yarn for you.

J C Bretts Northern lights, "one ball-one shawl"

This yarn is 95% Premium acrylic and 5% Viscose yarn in a double knitting weight.

Each ball, of which there are five shades in the range, weighs 150gram and has 450 Meters or 492 yards in the ball.

On the ball band is a pattern for a adult sized shawl, which can be knitted from a ball.

Each ball is £6, or £5.40 for Teds mates rate's J.

#buyitoffaboat #wool #yarn #buyitfromawoolshop                   

                    J C Bretts Party Time Chunky of which we have 8 shades available,

                                               at £3.50 a 100gram ball.

             

 See progress on Carole's Temperature blanket  for 2017. 

              

Don't worry if you do decide to purchase any of our lovely yarns it won't add to your stash….it's only a souvenir of a visit to the worlds only floating yarn and wool shop:-)

On the 17th of September 2016 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"

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 board  

                                   Capt Col is now on Twitter   

 

     

  The Burscough Fibre Festival's archive details here 

About six  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.   

 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.              

         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

"Where Can we Go" here for something else that may be of interest?