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.

AWAITS AN OLD BARN

exit sign from hawaii

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.

Recent blog posts

detail of the rocks for the cascade book with colonial knots, seed stitches

Unbound: A Week of Books, Fabrics, and New Beginnings

Mid-October already! I’ve spent the week at home, time slowly…

embellished rock with dark brown background and golden brown stitching in circular pattern

Virtual Schoolhouse #13 – Registration is Open

Happy Thanksgiving weekend! I hope everyone finds a little time…

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,…