The Fiber Artist in Me, lecture by Ana Buzzalino

Ana Buzzalino is a creator, maker, fibre and mixed media artist, surface designer, teacher and lecturer.

Ana’s love of layers and texture combine in creating original works.  She achieves results using a combination of different surface design techniques such as monoprinting, hand-painting, free-motion stitching and hand-stitching, amongst others to achieve the effects that she is searching for.  Ana’s work has won numerous awards at national and international shows.  The techniques used can often be found in articles published by  Quilting Arts Magazine, A Needle Pulling Thread and others.  Ana has also appeared several times in Quilting Arts TV.  She is currently teaching online from my studio in Calgary, Alberta.

When Ana moved to Calgary, Alberta from Argentina, her first purchase was a sewing machine.  One day, a few years later, I was walking down in the Kensington area of Calgary at lunch time and went by a store that had a “Blanket” in the window.  I went in and enquired about purchasing it; they told me it was not for sale, but that they would gladly teach me how to make my own quilt.  I signed up that same day, and the rest, as they say, is HISTORY!   What started as a curious interest in quilting in 1985 quickly evolved into a passion.