The Wool Boats crew plans for the 13th to 19th September 2021.
This week’s plan for Burscough’s wool shop.
We are back off our travels, and considering the weather forecast we think the best two days to be open will be Wednesday and Thursday.
The plan is to be open on Wednesday and Thursday moored outside The Farmers Arms on New Lane near Burscough open from 11-4 both days. Carole will be knitting and nattering in The Farmers on Thursday so Capt Col will be running the shop open on the boat.
We would love to see you visit for a squidge and see the yarns, wools and Carole’s hand knitted garment in proper colour, not on a computer screen.
Open Wednesday the 15th of September from 11 to 4.
Open Thursday the 16th of September from 11 to 4
As we have done all through the lock downs you can make an appointment to collect from us at a time that is good for us all, please ring 07931 356204.
As we are still being covid safe at the present time we are afraid we can’t let people on to the boat, we’ve not room for social distancing, so we are bringing baskets of yarn out to you.
– Christmas 2021 West Yorkshire spinners have blended a subtle touch of sparkle with our award-winning Signature 4ply to create Vintage Twinkle. Signature 4ply Sparkle Vintage Twinkle (1051) 75% Wool / 23% Nylon / 2% Polyester 75% Wool / 25% Nylon The wool content for all Signature 4ply yarn contains 35% luxurious Bluefaced Leicester making this one of the most sumptuous 4 Ply products on the market. Size: 100g balls (400m) Tension – 36rs x 28sts – 10cm (4″) sq – 3.25mm (US3) needles Machine Wash 30° Owing to photography and screen calibration the colour reproduction is matched as closely as possible to the yarn. Our price is £7.50 a 100 gram ball or £11.50 posted to a uk address. If you want more than one ball posting out please get in touch as we can send up to 8 balls out for the same postage.
A long and warm bright scarf designed and hand knitted by Carole Wareing of Colin and Carole’s Creations and The Wool Boat. This is an adult sized garment, knitted from a chunky yarn, with a chevron pattern in shades of pink, purple and lilac. It is ideal for keeping warm on a windy winter’s day whilst doing some gardening, locking, bicycling, standing markets, fishing, watching outdoor sports and events, or walking and rambling. The garment is approx 72 inch long and 11 inches wide. The scarf is for sale for £25 from the Wool Boat The warmer is knitted from J C Bretts “Party Time” chunky knitting acrylic yarn Shade PT 3 which has bold pink, purple and lilac shades in it. The yarn knits to most chunky knitting patterns and is available from the Wool Boat of which we have a range of 7 other shades at £3.50 per 100 gram ball. Posted out would be for £30 including delivery to a uk address. Thanks to Janet for the modelling. Copyright Colin Wareing Garment 524
Sunday stitches on the canal narrow boat “Emma Maye” 15th of August 2021 This week Carole is working on a Aran Jumper knitting from James C Bretts “Aran with wool” yarn.
As we have done all through the lock downs you can make an appointment to collect from us at a time that is good for us all, please ring 07931 356204.
As we are still being covid safe at the present time we are afraid we can’t let people on to the boat, we’ve not room for social distancing, so we are bringing baskets of yarn out to you.
www.thewoolboat.co.uk
Carole and Capt Col. 26.4.2021.
We now have 57 shades of this yarn available from the boat or we can post out, with nay order over £30 being post free, so 4 balls? contact us with your desires.
Cost at 14.3.2021 £7.50 per 100 gram ball available from The Wool Boat or we can post them out. Image Cw 7493 copyright Colin Wareing of Colin and Carole’s Creations www.thewoolboat.co.uk E-mail colinandcarolescreations@yahoo.co.uk 14.3.2021
2 balls of J C Bretts Supersoft DK yarn, a pattern for a babies’ cardigan, and the buttons to go with it. Delivered to a customer near Burscough so we could walk there.
Six shades of James C Brett’s acrylic Top Value chunky yarn available from The Wool Boat on 24.2.2021
Chunky weight premium acrylic yarn.
The shades are on the top row, TC04 White, TC07 Pink, TC10 Green
Bottom row TC 14 Red, TC 15 Navy Blue and TC 17 Royal Blue
The yarn is easy care, being machine washable at 30C
Price at February 2021 is £2.00 per 100 gram ball.
A 100gram ball contains approximately 150 meters or 163 yards of yarn.
Recommended needles are size 6mm
These new six shades have 25% bamboo within the mix of super wash wool and polyamide which makes it lovely and soft, but it’s still durable enough for sock knitting
The shades from top left to right are
FZB07, the pink one, FZB08, Mauve/blue, FZB09, Green, FZB10 Rainbow, FZB1, Blue and brown FZB12, Blue and Green
There are 6 shades available from The Wool Boat.
Price is £6.50 a ball.
Just off Carole’s needles, great for the chilly weather.
This set can be reproduced in any of the shades of “Fair Ground” yarn that we have in stock see the shades here
Available from our webshop here
Limited offer
Christmas sock yarn pack with free pattern book.
A limited offer of 4 balls of West Yorkshire Spinners signature 4 ply sock yarn in Christmas shades.
The 4 balls of yarn are 2 balls of Silent Night and one each of Candy Cane and Fairy lights.
And with this yarn will be a copy of the WYS “Christmas Socks collection one, Hand knitted sock designs by Winwick Mum.
In the book, which normally is priced at £8.50, are 6 patterns, one of which requires 2 balls of the Silent Night.
to order please e mail us at colinandcarolescreations@yahoo.co.uk and we will send you a payment request via pay pal as we are struggling a bit with this e-commerce malarkey 🙂
Now Christmas has gone and hopefully the postal services will be under less pressure we are now happy to resume posting out our creations along with wool and yarn or whatever else we have in stock, with free postage to a uk address on yarn orders over £30
About us
Where and when is The Wool Boat open?
The Wool Boat is based on the canal narrow boat “Emma Maye”. During the winter we are based on the Leeds and Liverpool canal in the Burscough area of Lancashire. Over the summer we cruise the inland waterways of the country. This means
we will keep this website up dated as to where and when we plan to be open.
Find us and other idea’s for days out on “Where can we go”