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Colin and Carole's Creations.
  • Wool and Yarns up dated 5.5.2025
    • Aran weight yarn updated 12.5.2025
    • Aztec Aran with Alpaca yarn updated 3.1.2024
    • Double knitting weight yarns
      • James C Brett Double Knitting yarns
        • J C Brett’s Top Value yarn page updated 31.12.2024
        • James C Brett Aurora
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        • Misty yarn updated 2.7.2023.
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        • It’s Pure Cotton up dated 25.2.2025
        • J C Brett’s Fairground yarn
        • Double Knitting with Merino up dated 6.5.2025
        • Driftwood DK from James C Brett updated 12.5.2025
        • Party Time Stripes J C Bretts yarn up dated 7.1.2025
        • Landscape dk yarn updated 23.1.2025
        • Swurlywurly Double knitting Yarn from James C Bretts
      • West Yorkshire Spinners DK yarns
        • Illustrious yarn from West Yorkshire Spinners
        • West Yorkshire Spinners Colourlab DK up dated 9.2.2025
        • WYS Aire Valley Essentials DK
        • West Yorkshire Spinners Croft DK updated 5.10.2023
    • Baby Yarns
      • Baby Twinkle Prints page updated 3.3.2025
      • James C Brett Happiness Baby yarn.
    • Chunky yarns
      • Party time chunky from James C Bretts up dated 9.2.2025
      • James C Bretts Top Value Chunky yarn updated 11.6.2024
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      • J C Bretts Marble Chunky yarn up dated 5.5.2025.
    • Sock yarn
      • James C Brett Funny Feetz with Bamboo yarn
      • Opal sock yarn updated 3.1.2025
      • West Yorkshire Spinners Signature 4 ply solid shades updated 5.5.2025
      • West Yorkshire Spinners Signature 4ply yarn updated 4.5.2025.
      • WYS Colour lab Sock Yarn
  • How to get your wool from us.
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    • West Lancashire photo gallery updated 17.5.2025
    • Col’s general photography
      • Gas holder dismantling in Keighley in June 2022
      • Burscough Christmas Cards
      • Fairground pictures
      • Allelys Moving a Transformer from Preston Docks 25.8.2024
    • Canal photograph gallery updated 30.1.2025
      • Breach on the Leeds and Liverpool canal 12.10.2021
      • Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival updated 31.7.2024
      • The Leeds and Liverpool canal pictures updated 17.10.2024
      • Wigan flight of locks pictures
    • Railway Photography updated 17.5.2025
      • Track relaying between Parbold and Burscough March 2024
    • The Burscough photo gallery updated 16.10.2024
    • Derbyshire Photo gallery
    • North East photo gallery
    • It’s been there for a while…..
    • Lincolnshire Photo’s
    • Traction Engine photographs updated 5.2.2025
  • Carole’s knitted garments updated 15.3.2024
    • Modern Boatman’s Ganseys
    • The Gansey Page
  • The Links Page
  • What went on in the past
    • Floating Fibre Festival 2021
    • When Colin worked at Philips in Crossens
  • Knitting and crafting tools
    • Knitting and crafting tools
  • The Wool Boat special offers page up dated 12.5.2025
  • The Slipway Stitchers
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Tag: Acrylic yarn

Acrylic yarn

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  • A retro style football scarf hand knitted by Carole Wareing from Colin and Caroles Creations and The Wool Boat. Knitted in a style that your mum or granny may have created back in the day. This yarn is in shades of red and white so could be used to show your support for a good range of clubs from Liverpool, Accrington Stanley, Brackley, Crewe, Sunderland…. The yarn acrylic so easy care, and the scarf is 64 inches long and 8 inches wide. These scarves can be knitted in a wide range of colours to show your support for your team. Please get in touch on 07931 356204 to place a order. Thanks Carole.

    “Retro” Football scarf.

    £20.00
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  • Blue and grey Basket Weave scarf An adult sized scarf hand knitted by Carole Wareing from Colin and Carole's Creations. The scarf has a basket weave pattern knitted into the final 9 inches, at either end, whilst the yarn produces a natural striped pattern. The colours are light blues, dark blues and greys. The scarf is approx 64 inch/ 163 cm long and 6inch/15cm wide until the last 9 inches / 23cm on either end of the scarf where the basket weave pattern is and the scarf widens out to 8 inches/21cm The price is £20 including free postage to a uk address, or come and pick up from The Wool Boat. The yarn used for this scarf is an acrylic yarn from the James C Brett’s “Fairground” range, shade G9. The Wool Boat’s virtual mooring if you can’t get to us on a canal is www.thewoolboat.co.uk or Carole can be contacted on 07931 356204

    Blue and grey Basket Weave scarf

    £25.00
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  • 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 Blue, Yellow and Green. 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.

    Blue, Yellow and green chunky scarf.

    £30.00
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  • Brown Marble fingerless gloves A pair of shades of brown fingerless gloves designed and hand knitted by Carole Wareing of Colin and Carole’s Creations and The Wool Boat. These are adult sized gloves ideal for gardening, typing, mechanicing, It work, locking, bicycling.... The gloves are for sale for £7.50 or £11.00 including delivery to a uk address They are knitted from J C Bretts Marble double knitting acrylic yarn Shade MT16.

    Brown Marble fingerless gloves

    £11.00
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  • A dark pink mobile phone case hand knitted aboard the narrow boat “Emma Maye” in Lancashire by Carole Wareing of Colin and Carole’s Creations. This phone case is 6.5 inches/16cm long by 3.5 inches/7.5cm which suits a good range of mobile phones or a right sized one could be designed for your phone. The yarn, “Top Value” is produced by James C Brett and this is shade no TV 8422 which we call “Dark Pink” Can be knitted in any of the 32 shades we have in stock. The yarn is an acrylic one, so easy care. Price is £8 picked up from The Wool Boat or including delivery to a UK address is £10.50. Handknitted by Carole

    Dark Pink mobile phone case.

    £10.50
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  • The stitch details of a Deep pink shawl hand knitted aboard the narrow boat “Emma Maye” in Lancashire by Carole Wareing of Colin and Carole’s Creations. This unique garment will make a great handmade present for someone or indeed for yourself. This garment, an adult sized shawl. The colours are shades of deep pink with blue, cream and fawn flecks. The stitches used to create this shawl have produced a textured and ribbed structure to the garment.

    Deep pink shawl

    £25.00
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  • Acrylic yarn, Hand knitted and crafted, J C Bretts quality yarn, Knitted with love, Neck scarf, Scarf, Lovely soft yarn, Ideal for taking the chill off, Variegated yarn, ideal as a gift, , Hand knitted by Carole Wareing, Fashionable, Multi coloured, Easy care, Unique, Exclusive, Something different, Snugly, Nice and warm, Driftwood yarn, scarf, shades of lilac and cream,

    Driftwood scarf

    £25.00
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  • Sale! J C Bretts Marble DK MT 55 pack of 10 J C Bretts Marble double knitting yarn shade MT55 in pink and cream shades. 100% Acrylic 240m 262 yards per 100 gram ball, knits to most D K patterns. Machine Washable £2.80 per 100 gram ball, or as in this case a pack of 10 balls collected from The Wool Boat for £20 or posted out to a uk address for £25. Owing to photography and screen calibration the colour reproduction is matched as closely as possible to the yarn. Photo Copyright Colin Wareing

    J C Bretts Marble DK MT 55 pack of 10

    £33.00 Original price was: £33.00.£25.00Current price is: £25.00.
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  • J C Bretts Marble double knitting yarn shade MT56 in light greens yellow and shades. 100% Acrylic 240m 262 yards per 100 gram ball, knits to most D K patterns. Machine Washable £3.30 per 100 gram ball, or as in this case a pack of 10 balls collected from The Wool Boat This yarn is priced at £3.30 per 100gram ball and can be posted out to a uk address for £7, or buy a pack of 10 balls posted out for £38 to a UK address. Ideal for a group of friends, or a knitting or crochet club, a knit and natter or a Yack and Yarn. The Wool Boat is a pet and smoke free wool shop based on the canal narrowboat “Emma Maye” based in Burscough in West Lancashire Owing to photography and screen calibration the colour reproduction is matched as closely as possible to the yarn.

    J C Bretts Marble double knitting yarn shade MT56 in light greens yellow and shades.

    £38.00
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  • Lavender Fields hat in shades of pink, lilac and creams. A striped beanie style hat hand knitted aboard the narrow boat “Emma Maye” in Lancashire by Carole Wareing of Colin and Carole’s Creations. Great for an adult or teenager, Colour – shades of pink, lilac and cream in horizontal stripes of varying depths. Acrylic yarn from the James C Bretts Party Time Stripes range of yarns which we stock on The Wool Boat. Shade PTS 07

    Lavender Fields Beanie hat

    £13.00
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  • Light blue Misty Hat Misty hat in a light blue shades. A light blue adults hat hand knitted aboard the narrow boat “Emma Maye” in Lancashire by Carole Wareing of Colin and Carole’s Creations. Great for an adult or teenager, Colour –light blue Machine washable at 30 degrees C The price is £10 or £13 including delivery to a uk address Created from a shade Ro5 from J C Brett’s “Misty” range walls which is no longer produced but we do have a few balls left on The Wool Boat. Hand knitted by Carole Wareing Garment 663 Cw 8559

    Light blue Misty Hat

    £13.00
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  • Lilac Marble fingerless gloves A pair of lilac fingerless gloves designed and hand knitted by Carole Wareing of Colin and Carole’s Creations and The Wool Boat. These are adult sized gloves ideal for gardening, typing, mechanicing, It work, locking, bicycling.... The gloves are for sale for £10.00 including delivery to a uk address They are knitted from J C Bretts Marble double knitting acrylic yarn Shade MT11. The yarn knits to most dk patterns and is available in a wide range of other shades, though this shade has been discontinued we do still have a few balls left in stock as of 8.12.2021. £2.75 per 100gram ball.

    Lilac Marble fingerless gloves

    £10.00
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