Creative & Designer

Ana’s work focuses on Art Quilting, incorporating different elements of surface design: fabric painting, mono-printing, screen printing, hand-dyeing and embroidery techniques. She works mostly with her own artist hand-dyed and designed fabrics.

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Workshops & Trunk Shows

Ana has been teaching quilting since 1986. From traditional techniques such as Free-motion quilting and New York Beauties blocks to art techniques: monoprinting, fabric dyeing, Paintstiks on Fabric and many more.

Writer & Author

Ana is a frequent contributor to Quilting Arts Magazine and to A Needle Pulling Thread. Her work has also been publshed in the American Quilter’s Society Magazine, in Modern Patchwork, as well as in 101 Patchwork Projects and Quilts and Quilt Scene. Ana has appeared on Quilting Arts TV on several occasions, and has 2 workshop DVDs with Interweave/F&W.

Portfolio items

Recent blog posts

I have been “gone” for a while … but not idle!

I have been “gone” for a while … but not idle!

I hate it when that happens. I had just finished…

Quilting Arts Magazine June/July 2014

Quilting Arts Magazine June/July 2014

It’s almost here … The new Quilting Arts Magazine for…

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Through Our Hands – New Online Magazine

I have to say, that as soon as I read…

Oh What fun it is to try …

Oh What fun it is to try …

Explorations, investigations, trials and errors, mistakes made into something different…

On naming your work

On naming your work

It’s Friday!   Yeah … quite an interesting week, I might…

Crows

Crows

A few weeks ago I purchased a new book called…

Happy New Year

Happy New Year

Happy New Year.  We bid good-bye to 2013 and are…

Almost Christmas!

Almost Christmas!

Good morning, There is snow falling once again in Calgary,…