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.

Portfolio items

Recent blog posts

finland bus

Stay on the bus

The key feature in the Helsinki Bus Station Theory is…

finished piece

Happenings in my studio

What is going on in my studio: from stitching to…

sketch

Creativity is a process

Talking about creativity, Sir Isaac Newton and an apple that…

three peonies

The Goal is not the point

About goals, goal setting and achieving your goals by taking…

Mountains

Canadian Rockies Quilt Show

I will be in Canmore at the end of September…

view from granville island

Quilt Canada came and went …

Quilt Canada 2022 in Vancouver. I’ve shared my time there…

Do we take risks?

Do we take risks?

I was taping a video on perfection early last week,…

Two new classes coming up

Two new classes coming up

Two new classes coming up: “Monoprinting: from basics to sophistication”…