THE DYE LOT
The Knitting Shed
Meet an indie dyer and indulge in a design with their skeins
When former nursery school teacher Louise Diggins lost her sister-in-law Vicky to breast cancer in 2014, she joined forces with her siblings, Paul (Vicky’s husband) and Nicola, to keep online wool shop The Knitting Shed open.
The site only stocked commercial yarns at the time, but Louise was keen to sell hand-dyed skeins. “I liked the look of hand-dyed yarns but was unable to afford to stock any,” explains Louise. “I bought a couple of packs of undyed yarn and started in the kitchen... I still use a set of kitchen measuring spoons to measure the dye. If I lost the set, I’d be scuppered!”