NikkisStudioDesigner
Daniela N
United States
I love working with my hands and I am a longtime multi-crafter since childhood. I learned to knit, crochet and sew in elementary school back in Switzerland but have lived now in the US for the last 20+ years.
With every crafting project I seek new challenges and use a diverse range of techniques and media to produce designs that highlight simplicity and elegance.
My designs have been published in major knitting magazines, as book contributions, with online magazines, for indie dyers and yarn companies, and if time allows, I self-publish some of my patterns.
I’m a regular freelance Technical Editor at Interweave for its many wonderful knit & crochet magazines (Knits, Knitscene, Knit.Wear, Crochet, Piecework, Knitting Traditions, various eMagazines, etc.), Craftsy (now BluPrint) and indie designers, before which I was the sole German-English translator for Verena Knitting (~70 patterns/magazine) during its final year published as an English magazine.
Happy Crafting!
~Daniela
- Knitting27 Skills
Knitting: Over 20 years
27 Skills
- Cast on & cast off
- Knit and purl stitches
- Simple increase & decrease
- Picking up stitches
- Fair Isle
- Lace knitting
- Knitting in the round
- Turn a heel
- Stranded knitting
- Intarsia
- Brioche
- I-cord
- Double knitting
- Three needle cast off
- Steeks
- Ribbed
- Tubular cast on/off
- Short rows
- Garter
- Modular knitting
- Kitchener
- Stocking
- Moebius
- Slipped stitches
- Cables
- Provisional cast on
- Entrelac
- Crochet22 Skills
Crochet: Over 20 years
22 Skills
- Chain
- Slip stitch
- Double crochet
- Triple/Treble Crochet
- Tunisian/Afghan crochet
- Increase & decrease
- Surface crochet
- Half treble crochet
- Bullion/Roll stitch
- Magic Ring
- Colourwork
- Front/Back post stitch
- Triple treble crochet
- Lace Crochet
- Double treble crochet
- Working in the round
- Filet crochet
- Lover's Knot/Solomon
- Beading
- Hairpin crochet
- Freeform
- Broomstick crochet
