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 the back cover of the circles book to use as a featured image

The Rhythm of Needle and Thread

Last year I began a new textile book. I wanted…

an image of a stained glass piece of art with four colourful rocks on a white background inspired by one of my own rock pieces

A Simple Mother’s Day … and Pizza!

I hope you all had a beautiful Mother’s Day yesterday,…

an image showing a detail of a slow stitched scroll with vintage and antique lace and a cicada embroidered in dark thread

Back Home and Full of Ideas

It’s blog time again… and I’ve just realized it’s been…

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…

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…

The Work Behind the Work

The Work Behind the Work

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

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…

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…