The Wool Boat

On Saturday the 2nd May 2015, the second annual Yarn Shop Day will take place in knitting and craft stores across the country, and the unique floating yarn shop, The Wool Boat is just one of the delighted to be involved. The event has been organised by leading publications
Let’s Knit and Let’s Get Crafting in a bid to celebrate Britain’s much-loved independent wool shops. “We’re very happy to be taking part,” said Carole Wareing co-owner of The Wool Boat. “Yarn crafting is really growing in popularity”
On Saturday the 2nd of May we will have boated down from our winter base in Lancashire and be moored and open in Rode Heath, on the Trent and Mersey Canal near Alsager in Cheshire. For the day we will be making a feature of British produced yarns. We’ll have yarns spun from wool from British sheep, commercially produced by West Yorkshire spinners from Keighley and Woolly knits from Diggle, and yarns from a couple of independent spinners, Lazy Kate from back home in Lancashire and Kate Schofield, from Cheadle.
We are looking forward to welcoming customers old and new aboard The Wool Boat, and hope all local knitters and crocheter’s will come and get involved, with a outdoor knit and natter if the weather is nice.”
The Wool Boat will be open at Rode heath for the 3 days of this bank holiday weekend, open from 10-5 daily.
For more information about Yarn Shop Day visit www.letsknit.co.uk and The Wool Boat on www.thewoolboat.co.uk
The Wool boat is a unique floating Wool and Yarn shop based on board the canal narrowboat “Emma Maye” that is based in Burscough on the Leeds and Liverpool canal in West Lancashire during the winter months. In the summer the boat travels the inland waterways of the country popping up and opening for business in canal side villages and towns along the way.
The boat and shop are owned by husband and wife team Colin and Carole Wareing, and stocks a wide range of yarns from basic acrylics through to Aran’s and pure wools, alongside patterns, knitting pins and needles and a ever increasing range of buttons.
Carole is also a proficient knitter specializing in bespoke hand knitted garments, and is quite happy to over friendly advice to her customers. Carole can be contacted on 07931 356204 or there is a web site at www.thewoolboat.co.uk