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

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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.

Available Workshops

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

A detail photo of the horizontally stripped pieced text fabric on the left with some of the red on the right and the fused black shapes on top
Rhapsody in Red

My He”Art” goes to Rex

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where the oceans sing is a quilt made with 17 images merged in PowerPoint and digitally printed. Monoprinted and painted fabrics were used to complete the design. Original design.
Art Quilts

Where the Oceans Sing

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an image showing a collage of fabrics lightly painted with white. circles in diffeent shapes and textures can be seen on top. A manipulated image of the warner grain elevators has been applied in the centre.
Grain Elevators

Warner

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a view of a grain elevator on a black background. the image has been created by screen printing on a white background with grey and then lettering was added with lime green
Grain Elevators

Echoes of the Past

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Checkerboard vases is a piece created by painting with thickened dyes in different reds an image of 5 vessels in different sizes overlapped creating a checkerboard
Vessels and Vases

Checkerboard Vases

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a detail photo of the paper lamination and the slashes of paint created with a credit card
Grain Elevators

The Prairies Changing Landscape

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an image of a collage made of magazine papers in different shapes. mostly black and white with a bit of orange showing a musician playing an instrument.
Collages

In the Quiet of the Night

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detail of one of the small blocks with stitching, beading, embroidery and crystals visible
Traditional

Et Voilà

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Recent blog posts

image for virtual schoolhouse no. 9

Virtual Schoolhouse #9 this week

As I write this, I’m watching a black squirrel running…

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Oh! The In-Betweens

Oh! The In-Betweens

The “in-between” periods, though not as visibly productive, are actually…

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a photo of a clay pot with a beautiful rounded shape showing the signs of time: mold, splatters of paint and moss on a tiled sidewalk

The Why of Creative Endeavours

I wake up every morning and wonder why I still…

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thank you sign

Giving Thanks

Happy Thanksgiving! I have a lot to be thankful for.…

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a view of bare trees against a blue sky

Bare trees – crafting memories

Today, I want to delve into a subject that’s deeply…

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the front side of the front cover for the botanical hand-stitched book showing the detail of embroidered design from the vintage French table runner used to create it

The Art of Slow Stitching

Finding peace in the process Yikes! Another week has gone…

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an image of a stack of fabrics and threads with pins and a measuring tape and a pair of scissors

What goes on behind the scenes?

Ahhh, a lot! That’s the answer to the question what…

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a detail of some of the stitches and the trims used on the piece

Scraps, a needle and some thread

What’s not to like? A couple of weeks ago, I…

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