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

a shot of my design wall in my upstairs studio showing different painted and printed fabrics and bits of old lace - in preparation for new work

Clearing Space – A Turning Point

This past week felt like a turning point. After what…

Detail - image showing a long and skinny piece of work painted on duck canvas. This detail shows the rocks painted.

Revisiting the Unfinished

Sometimes inspiration comes not from starting something new, but from…

an image showing some pieces of fabric painted with mark making in soft gray blues and grays

A Funky Kind of Week

It’s been a funky sort of week. Not bad, not…

image for the top of the blog

Blocks Reborn as Pages

An artist book stitched from rocks, fabric, and memory You…

a partial detail of a flag book cover

The Value of Testing and Not Giving Up

Lately, my studio time has been filled with experiments. For…

a partial detail image of the cover of my Unbound workbook with magazine papers used to cover it, letters cut out to spell "unbound" and circle cutouts

The Language of Folds

As I work through the FibreArt Takes Two course Unbound,…

A New Chapter: Exploring Artists’ Books

A New Chapter: Exploring Artists’ Books

I’ve just signed up for a new course with FibreArts…

Back from England with Inspiration and Stories

Back from England with Inspiration and Stories

I’m back home after a fantastic trip to England and…