174 ratings | 29 reviews | avg rating:4.12

Donna's Bookshelves

read (211)
currently-reading (4)
to-read (171)
favorite-authors (21)
long-term-research (30)

Donna's Friends (87)

Karen Girvan

149 books | 46 friends

Melanie Benjamin

64 books | 156 friends

Ann

337 books | 101 friends

Dan Porter

1,934 books | 5,000 friends
Friend details

Laurie

784 books | 8 friends

Carla

2,678 books | 126 friends

Liberty Montano

317 books | 93 friends

Denise

282 books | 54 friends

More friends…

Donna Druchunas

Goodreads author profile

url

http://www.goodreads.com/Druchunas

born

New York, The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.sheeptoshawl.com

genre

Crafts & Hobbies, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality

influences

Barbara G. Walker

member since

February 2010

About this author

edit data

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

1130 posts
Donna Druchunas's Blog

Off to Alaska today & NEW BOOK

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 »

View more on Donna Druchunas's website »

0 comments

•

Published on May 26, 2012 09:15 • 2 views

View all 1130 posts »

combine editions
Books by Donna Druchunas

Average rating: 3.68 · 137 ratings · 31 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Arctic Lace: Knitting Projects and Stories Inspired by Alaska's Native Knitters 3.80 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	The Knitted Rug: 21 Fantastic Designs 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Kitty Knits: Projects for Cats and Their People 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Ethnic Knitting Discovery: The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and the Andes 3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Successful Lace Knitting: Celebrating the Work of Dorothy Reade 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Ethnic Knitting Exploration: Lithuania, Iceland, and Ireland 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Ethnic Knitting Exploration by Donna Druchunas (Goodreads Author), Joyce M. Turley, Donna Drunchunas 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Skein for Skein: 16 Knitted Projects by Cheryl Potter, Donna Druchunas (Goodreads Author), Celeste Pinheiro 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

More books by Donna Druchunas…

Upcoming Events

No scheduled events. Add an event.

Donna is Currently Reading

Donna is currently reading:

A Moveable Feast: Life-Changing Food Adventures Around the World

by Lonely Planet Publications

bookshelves: currently-reading

My rating:

Mar 27, 2012 07:19pm

Donna is currently reading:

Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine

by Gary Paul Nabhan

bookshelves: currently-reading

My rating:

Mar 27, 2012 07:19pm

Donna is currently reading:

Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz: An Essay in Historical Interpretation

by Jan Tomasz Gross

bookshelves: currently-reading

My rating:

Feb 17, 2012 02:36pm

rss
Donna's Recent Updates

Donna Druchunas wrote a new blog post: Off to Alaska today & NEW BOOK Off to Alaska today & NEW BOOK 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... read more »
May 26, 2012 03:06pm · like
Donna marked as to-read: The Magic Sack: A Lithuanian Folktale by Marguerita Rudolph	My rating:
May 05, 2012 08:28pm
Donna gave to: Wild Women and Books by Brenda Knight	My rating:
Apr 13, 2012 09:05pm
Donna gave to: The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews by Patrick Desbois	My rating:
Apr 13, 2012 09:04pm
Donna gave to: The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins	My rating:
Apr 13, 2012 09:02pm
Donna gave to: The Silence of Trees by Valya Dudycz Lupescu (Goodreads Author) read in March, 2012	My rating:
Mar 27, 2012 07:20pm
Donna gave to: Out of Oz (Wicked Years, #4) by Gregory Maguire read in March, 2012	My rating:
Mar 27, 2012 07:20pm
Donna gave to: Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia by Max Egremont read in March, 2012	My rating:
Mar 27, 2012 07:20pm
Donna is currently reading: A Moveable Feast: Life-Changing Food Adventures Around the World by Lonely Planet Publications	My rating:
Mar 27, 2012 07:19pm
Donna is currently reading: Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine by Gary Paul Nabhan	My rating:
Mar 27, 2012 07:19pm