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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...more


Off to Alaska to cruise and teach knitting and take photos for my upcoming book, Big Lace: Gifts on the Go, written with Susan Santos and published byCooperative Press. We’ll be taking photos and finishing up the stories for the book, and the knitters on the cruise — women and men — will be modeling [...] read more »
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Average rating: 3.68 · 137 ratings · 31 reviews · 8 distinct works
Arctic Lace: Knitting Proje...
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2006
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The Knitted Rug: 21 Fantast...
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
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Kitty Knits: Projects for C...
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2008
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3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2007
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Successful Lace Knitting: C...
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010
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44031 Q&A with Livia Blackburne on Neuroscience of Reading and Writing — 146 members — last activity Apr 03, 2011 12:12pm
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Donna Sadly have not had much time for reading lately. Busy writing and knitting.


message 1: by Donna

Donna OMG, there are just way too many fascinating books to be read in one lifetime. If there were a heaven, I would want mine to be the world's biggest library with everlasting free lattes.


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