Gyleen was born in Philadelphia, PA but grew up in Taiwan and Japan. Those formative years in the Far East developed her love for simplistic artistry. She began needlework at a very young age of 4 then in 1981, pursued artistic expression in drawing and quilt making.

Her quilts blend colour, pattern and texture to provide a contemporary essence to traditional quilting. She shares her enthusiasm for quilting through interactive lectures and high energy workshops. Her written works center around Haiku poetry, quilt patterns and magazine articles; and of course the crème de la crème, children’s books.

She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Drexel University and opened Colourful Stitches in 1999. Its first subsidiary, FPI Publishing was launched in 2005 with the publication of her first two books, The Dream and Poetry & Patchwork.

For Gyleen, quilting is the passion which colours her world.

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