Creative & Designer

Ana’s work focuses on Art Quilting, incorporating different elements of surface design: fabric painting, mono-printing, screen printing, hand-dyeing and embroidery techniques. She works mostly with her own artist hand-dyed and designed fabrics.

AWAITS AN OLD BARN

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Workshops & Trunk Shows

Ana has been teaching quilting since 1986. From traditional techniques such as Free-motion quilting and New York Beauties blocks to art techniques: monoprinting, fabric dyeing, Paintstiks on Fabric and many more.

Available Workshops

Writer & Author

Ana is a frequent contributor to Quilting Arts Magazine and to A Needle Pulling Thread. Her work has also been publshed in the American Quilter’s Society Magazine, in Modern Patchwork, as well as in 101 Patchwork Projects and Quilts and Quilt Scene. Ana has appeared on Quilting Arts TV on several occasions, and has 2 workshop DVDs with Interweave/F&W.

Portfolio items

a collage made of magazine papers. The barn shows rows and rows of books and an elegant doorway. the barn is surrounded by trees on the left and manicured laws on the right beneath a blue sky. the foreground shows an abundance of colourful flowers
Collages

Where Stories Grow

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a photo of an art piece called Abandoned inspired by rusted fabrics done in Kauai with a wheel. Piece entirely done in hexagons
Art Quilts

Abandoned

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The woman who is alone and waits is an art quilt with paper lamination, rusted organza and text telling the story of a woman who is waiting for someone
Art Quilts

The Woman who is Alone and Waits

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a detail photo of the paper lamination and the slashes of paint created with a credit card
Grain Elevators

The Prairies Changing Landscape

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Photo of a textile piece created with monoprinted shapes of different vessels, background is a window with a tree and stripes like wallpaper. All in reds.
Rhapsody in Red

Baby It’s Cold Outside

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AN IMAGE OF A collage made with magazine papers. Strips and circles with different textures all ini red.
Collages

Detailed in Red

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The Barn on the Highway to There
Art Quilts

The Barn on the Highway to There

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Detail showing some hand-stitching in between rows of machine stitching
Rhapsody in Red

Red Collage Fragments

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Recent blog posts

an image showing a small piece worked with 3-d rocks with hand-painted and hand-dyed fabrics, and lots of colonial knots mounted on a tin can of sardines

Rocks, Linen… and a Tin of Sardines

I’m sitting and my computer today … and you know…

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a small sample made with a printed monopirnt of a blue vase on a pinky/greenish background using one pack of 7" squares and one pack of 5-fabrics, trianges and a border plus a pieced border

Samples, Stitches and New Directions

Another quiet week in the studio – but a satisfying…

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The Work Behind the Work

The Work Behind the Work

The past two weeks have been very busy… and yet…

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a detail image of rocks to use as banner in the blog

Back from Daytona: Nerve-Wracking & Wonderful

And definitely worth it! I didn’t write a blog last…

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a detail of stitching with felted wool and different colours of threads using satin stitch and buttonhole stitch

Back to the Drawing Board

There is a particular kind of joy that comes from…

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On Paper and Joy

On Paper and Joy

This week was full – classes taught, lectures given, ideas…

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an image showing a page for a textile book. Circles are sewn and hand stitched with running stitches, back stitches, satin stitch, colonial knots and blanket stitch. All on linen

A Week of Laying Foundations

This past week in the studio was a quiet one…

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an image showing strips of fabrics in pinks and greens yellows and reds

On Teaching, Returning Classes … and Circles

It’s been one of those weeks — full of teaching,…

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