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Nadia Druzinina

map-pin Malahide, Ireland

I remember myself in childhood, I set down on a meadow and I had been making my first chain. I made it very long one and I was proud of myself. My mum gave me a hook and a ball of the yarn. These days I was 6 years old. During the school times, I never gave up crafts. I added knitting, cross stitch and tapestry weaving to it. I have met brilliant teachers for my live way and improved my skills step-by-step starting from basic ones. My mum became the first tutor.

In the soviet times when I raised up, there was only one yearly knitting / crochet issue. When I got it, the magazine became my second tutor. Every new project I've made was based on my new skills. I added a pocket or cool edging, or crocheted by rounds, or added a collar or cable knitting or studied all fitches of Irish Crochet Lace. Thereafter I have completed the Crochet course in St. Petersburg were I was graduated.

I felled in love in modern Irish Crochet when my family moved to Ireland. I have been continu

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  • Knitting25 Skills

    Knitting: Over 20 years

    25 Skills

    • Cast on & bind off
    • Knit and purl stitches
    • Simple increase & decrease
    • Picking up stitches
    • Fair Isle
    • Lace Work
    • Knitting in the round
    • Stranded knitting
    • Intarsia
    • I-cord
    • Double knitting
    • Three needle cast off
    • Ribbed
    • Tubular cast on/off
    • Short rows
    • Garter
    • Modular knitting
    • Stocking
    • Slipped stitches
    • Cables
    • Provisional cast on
    • Twined knitting
    • Turn a heel
    • Entrelac
    • Kitchener
  • Crochet17 Skills

    Crochet: Over 20 years

    17 Skills

    • Chain
    • Slip stitch
    • Single crochet
    • Double crochet
    • Afghan Stitch
    • Increase & decrease
    • Half double crochet
    • Bullion/Roll stitch
    • Clones knot
    • Magic Ring
    • Colorwork
    • Front/Back post stitch
    • Double treble crochet
    • Lace Crochet
    • Treble crochet
    • Working in the round
    • Filet crochet
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