Gisela has been quilting for over thirty years. Her journey started off in 1991, with a simple sampler quilt. She has been hooked on fibre ever since! After completing a long series of traditional quilts, she has progressed into creating her own patterns from photographs. She loves that her art quilts forever captures her favorite images in a fabric art form. She has also enjoyed teaching a few classes in creative quilting without patterns. Her work often reflects the beauty of nature and she tends to find inspiration for her designs from photographs taken on walks outside. She grew up in an artistic household. Her father was a painter and she watched her mother knit, embroider, and sew all of her clothing. She was always surrounded by creative works of art and found that quilting satisfies her inner need to be creative. With each new art quilt she incorporates new techniques and improves old ones.