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.

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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.

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Recent blog posts

Space to Must

Space to Must

We talk this week about Space: space to create, to…

Choosing Must

Choosing Must

Once you discover your Must, your brain’s most primal, protective…

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The Path to Must

Last week, we discussed the origins of Should which are…

Shoulds and Musts – Part II

Shoulds and Musts – Part II

WE explore the origins of Shoulds, which are put on…

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The Crossroads between Should and Must

One of the main messages of the book is this:…

The Quilt Show

The Quilt Show

My experience of taping an episode for the Quilt Show…

On Persistence and the patience to let it percolate

On Persistence and the patience to let it percolate

The process I used over quite a few years to…

The Power of “No”

The Power of “No”

The power of the word no and why it’s so…