Ana Buzzalino is a fiber artist and quilt instructor living in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She has taken numerous workshops with renowned quilt and fiber artists throughout the years to improve her skills. Some of the workshops have been with Hollis Chatelain, Laura Cater Woods, Katie Pasquini Massopoust, and Elizabeth Barton among others. She has also attended various classes at the Alberta College of Arts and Design.
Ana has been a teacher on a variety of quilting techniques for the past 22 years. Some of the recent workshops have been on Machine Quilting with focus on free-motion quilting, and New York Beauties Blocks quilts, which is one of her interests. Her present focus is on Art Quilts, incorporating different elements for surface texture.
Ana's quilts have won several awards at local and national shows, and have been juried into major International shows.
, Untitled, Poppies in Bloom, A Good Year (l-r) by Ana Buzzalino, Simple Landscapes samples
Moments by Ana Buzzalino
Ana will be teaching a one day workshop "Simple Landscapes With Stitch and Paint" on Thursday April 24.
In this workshop, students will work on approximately a 10” x 20” landscape, using simple curves to sew the background. A design will then be added. The piece will be fully quilted before the paint is applied. Painting technique will be demonstrated. Beading and hand embroidery will be demonstrated (time permitting) as an option to add different textures to the finished piece.
The two day workshop "Curved Piecing" will be on Friday April 25 & Saturday April 26. This workshop is based on the techniques used to make the art piece “Moments” which appeared in Quilting Arts Magazine
Day 1: Each student will work on her own piece to be finished at 17” x 24” approximately. The focus of the first day will be to design the piece based on a favorite object of inspiration (a photo, a leaf, shell, feather, piece of wood, cup, etc.). Once the design has been finalized, the piecing technique will be demonstrated.
Day 2: Continue working on piecing the top. Quilting techniques will be discussed, as well as thread painting and embellishment: Paintstiks, Angelina fibers, tulle, stencils, fabric paint, stamps, splattering, beading, etc.
For more information, registration etc contact Pam Wells at jwells@eastlink.ca
