Creative & Designer

Ana Buzzalino is a textile artist and surface designer whose work explores colour, texture, memory, and the stories materials hold. Combining her own hand-dyed fabrics with vintage linens, lace, and other found textiles, she creates art quilts and slow-stitched textile books that celebrate the beauty of materials, the passage of time, and the art of making by hand.

AWAITS AN OLD BARN

exit sign from hawaii

Workshops & Lectures

Ana has been teaching quilting and textile arts since 1986. Today, her workshops and lectures focus on hand stitching, art quilting, surface design, monoprinting, fabric dyeing, and mixed-media explorations. Through hands-on classes and engaging presentations, she encourages participants to experiment with materials, explore new possibilities, and develop their own creative voice.

Writer & Author

Ana Buzzalino is a frequent contributor to Quilting Arts Magazine and A Needle Pulling Thread. Her work has also been featured in American Quilter’s Society Magazine, Modern Patchwork, 101 Patchwork Projects, Quilt Scene, and Stitched Journeys with Birds: Inspiration to Let Your Creativity Take Flight. She has appeared on Quilting Arts TV and The Quilt Show and has produced two instructional workshop DVDs with Interweave/F&W.

Recent blog posts

detail of the rocks for the cascade book with colonial knots, seed stitches

Upcoming Classes for October and November

Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends and readers! I…

an image showing a piece of the come sit with me scroll where you can appreciate some of the fabrics used, the stitching and some buttons and details.

Watching an Idea Grow – And Become a Class

I am resending this post as it was brought to…

an image showing a close up of the italian lace painted on the seat of the vintage chair

The Chair from the Flea Market

I was thinking about chairs at 2:30 in the morning.…

this image is a photo to use as advertising for teaching at quiltfest virtual schoolhouse 15 in October

A Couple of Classes Coming up

Every once in a while, I realize that something I’ve…

a detail of a hand stitching on a scroll. spools and balls of thread sitting nearby

Come Sit with Me

I seem to have developed a bit of a love…

an image showing a detail from the first 2-page layout on the concertina book showing the small napkin with the cross stitched design in pink for the rose and green for the leaves. Plus some added fabrics and a few vintage buttons

At a Crossroads

It’s been a funny kind of time. Not funny as…

an image showing a vintage crocheted tablecloth on a table and on top two spools of thread, a gold small embroidery pair of scissors, a pile of vintage buttons and the corner of a lace book

The Quiet Before the Show

There is a very particular kind of chaos that happens…

an image showing a two-page spread on my rock book. On the left, a chartreuse rock with stitching on the diagonal using running stitches and on the right, a composition with three rocks, a triangular one at the bottom, a pieced one on top and a smallish one on the left.

A Little Good News from my Studio

I have some lovely news to share today. Last November,…