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 an image from the Paris book showing an image transfer from a flower market plus some small pieces of fabric on lace all stitched by hand with red thread

Following the Fold

I think I’ve fallen down another creative rabbit hole. I…

an image showing some dark blue fabrics stitched to a page with some hand stitching and a red strip of silk

One Book Ends, Another Begins

There is something deeply satisfying about placing the final stitch…

all about pink - detail from front cover bottom showing the lace from the corner of the napkin

When the Work Begins to Whisper

I have spent a lot of time stitching this week.…

an image showing a piece of vintage fabric with lace and fabrics sewn on to it and lots of stitching with Eleganza embroidery thread no. 8 and a small pair of embroidery scissorsan image showing a piece of vintage fabric with lace and fabrics sewn on to it and lots of stitching with Eleganza embroidery thread no. 8 and a small pair of embroidery scissors

Stitching Through the World Cup

Pink, Lace and Fútbol This past week has been one…

an image showing two pages of the textile book using doilies, lace, and stitching to bring it all together. Circles in stitching and pieces of doily including an antique butterfly that belonged to my grandmother

When Vintage Linens Become a Book

There is something deeply satisfying about finishing a textile book.…

Red Tori Gate at Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto, Japan copy

I’m Going Back to Japan – Come With Me

Last year, I spent three wonderful weeks travelling through Japan,…

embellished rocks dark blue/black rock with blanket stitch

The Organized Chaos of Going Somewhere

I have just returned home after spending a wonderful week…

an image showing a grouping of vintage buttons in different sizes and colours

A Morning Spent Treasure Hunting

There is something wonderfully satisfying about treasure hunting. On Saturday…