Last up date 14th May 2012, with plans for the first month of our summer cruise, including a report on our 1st Roving knit and natter, and we will be doing a major up date of the Burscough Heritage group page later this week.
Boatmans Gansey Photo Art Exclusive Hand Kniited Garments Wool
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The Wool Boat "Emma Maye"
will next be open at
Brewood in Staffordshire
on the Shropshire Union canal,
on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th
open 10-5
Shop opening times and Cruising plan here.
For service outside shop opening hours please feel free to ring us or e-mail us.
Burscough Heritage Week 2012 will soon be here...
18th - 24th June
We are keeping our page on here up to date with what s going on, and there is also a new dedicated web page for the group, here and there is also a facebook page, here loads of information !!!!
More New stock on board, Wendy "Jubilee" Pattern books with loads of jubilee related knits, and we also have 3 shades on the new Wendy d.k Jubilee yarn, Ruby, Cream , and Navy, for knitting Union Jack designs. Pattern book is £6.50 and yarn £3.30 per 100grm.
For scarf knitters we have a few balls of Starlites Silver Yarn which normally is £10 a ball, now £7.50. You can create 1 long, or 2 short scaves.
Our main yarn supplier, J.C. Bretts have recently launched 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.
We have just taken onboard a selection on "Woodlander", a double knit yarn , with a 20% Wool content. We have in stock shades L1 to L9, the price of a 100grm ball is £3.30.
If you would like to be put on our weekly text messaging service please let us know by texting us on our contact number.
The Wool Boat Knit and Natter have rebranded themselves as The Slipway Stitchers, they continue to meet in The Slipway pub, Crabtree Lane, Burscough every Thursday for more details go to this page.
As always if your making a special trip give us a bell to make sure where we are.
07931 356204
We now have a face book page for The Wool Boat