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

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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.

Recent blog posts

On Paper and Joy

On Paper and Joy

This week was full – classes taught, lectures given, ideas…

an image showing a page for a textile book. Circles are sewn and hand stitched with running stitches, back stitches, satin stitch, colonial knots and blanket stitch. All on linen

A Week of Laying Foundations

This past week in the studio was a quiet one…

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On Teaching, Returning Classes … and Circles

It’s been one of those weeks — full of teaching,…

Everything Old is New Again

Everything Old is New Again

This past week didn’t come with any big milestones or…

sliver of January and February stitch journal 2025

Holding a Year: Stitch Journal 2025

The stitch journal for 2025 is finally done and dusted.…

New Classes Made Slowly and by Hand

New Classes Made Slowly and by Hand

As the year begins, I find myself returning to the…

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Happy New Year!

A new year always arrives with a certain freshness to…

Stitching the End of 2025

Stitching the End of 2025

When I began this daily stitching journey back on January…