Welcome
Welcome to Cindy Grisdela Art Quilts!
I’m intrigued by color and the way colors interact with one another. When I was a child, one of my favorite pastimes was taking a new box of crayons and exploring how the colors worked together. In a way, I’m continuing those explorations in fabric. I like to use fabric the way a painter might use paint to create a mood, develop a contrast, or sometimes just to see what happens.
My work has a feeling of spontaneity because I use many different fabrics in my designs, along with improvisational cutting and piecing techniques and whimsical free motion quilting. Fiber art is exciting to me because it offers a tactile quality beyond the color and line of a design. Once I’ve played with the colors and the fabric in the pieced top, I have another opportunity to add dimension to my work by quilting the layers together—a process I like to think of as drawing with a needle and thread.
I use vibrant color and bold graphic design to create contemporary art quilts that have a strong visual impact as art for the wall.
I hope you enjoy your visit and come back often. I update my blog regularly with news and new work in process.
To see some of my work in person, visit The Artisans shop in McLean in the Langley Shopping Center on Old Chain Bridge Road.
--Cindy