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.

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

Recent blog posts

detail of low tide at rocky point

A week full of “stuff”

What’s been going on in my Studio this past week:…

bags of fabric

Summer … don’t go yet!

Summer. Warm days and cool nights in Calgary. And I…

hands holding a pencil

A thank you to my hands

I don’t normally give much thought to my hands. We…

neutral images collaged onto a sketchbook page

On cutting papers and creating stories

I have been creating collages using magazine images. And writing…

basement studio

I am inspired …

On reorganizing and rearranging and getting rid of stuff in…

A healthier happy, a healthier you

A healthier happy, a healthier you

Healthy positivity doesn’t mean you should never be sad or…

Another door in Barcelona

A few of my favourite things II

Walking around Barcelona I found the most amazing graffiti /…

It has been … well, what can I say?

It has been … well, what can I say?

On having a less than wonderful few weeks, and learning…