Andrea learned to knit from her mother when she was 7 years old. Her mother has learned from a Portuguese lady and this is the only style of knitting she knew until she came to the USA in 1991. Since then she has been knitting avidly, designing and teaching. For the last 8 years she has taught people around the world in how to knit with the yarn tensioned around a knitting pin on their shoulder or around their neck among other classes. She also teaches on regular basis on yarn shops and guilds around the country and is one of the teachers at TNNA convention. She has designed for yarn companies like Fiesta Yarns and Ironstone and she has won a contest for XRX for the book “Kids, Kids, Kids”.
Andrea has published three technical DVDs and one book on the subject.