I grew up learning many different crafts from my mother and grandmothers including knitting, crochet, rug-hooking, embroidery, and sewing.
After a 25 year vacation from crafts, I started knitting again and learned to spin and dye wool with natural dyes.
Before I returned to knitting, I spent almost 20 years working in corporate cubicles as a writer, designer, and creative services manager. My cubes were in military training facilities, small businesses, and large corporations. During that time, I wrote and designed marketing materials, training courses and technical manuals for many types of hardware and software products.
I also streamlined documentation production processes for several companies. I was recruited by Fujitsu-ICL Systems and Hewlett-Packard's Colorado storage division to establish in-house creative services departments and to implement procedures based on systems I originated earlier for the US Navy Fighter Weapons School at NAS Miramar and Pyxis Corporation in San Diego.
After all that time, I rebelled and left my cubicle behind to combine my interest in knitting with my skill at writing easy-to-follow instructions. My designs and articles have been featured in Family Circle Easy Knitting, Knitters, Piecework, Interweave Knits, Fibre Focus, and INKnitters magazines, and I design patterns for several yarn companies.
I was born in New York City, but today
I live at the foothills of the Colorado
Rocky Mountains with my husband and
two cats, who are very helpful when it
comes to testing new knitting designs!
I hope you enjoy visiting my site.
Donna Druchunas
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The last few years I've been busy working on my newest books, Arctic Lace and Ethnic Knitting Discovery. I went to Alaska in 2004 and Lithuania in 2007 to learn about knitting in both areas.
The photo on the left was taken at the top of Gedimino Tower in Vilnius. The first castle was built on this site in the 10th century. Since then, the castle and tower have been rebuilt and destroyed several times. The current reconstruction was built in 1930.
