Welcome!
I’m Cindy Grisdela – an Artist, Teacher, and Author from Reston, VA.
Color and texture are the driving forces behind my contemporary art quilts. Browse my site to see how I combine line and shape, then add stitching lines to create texture and dimension – a process I like to think of as painting with fabric and thread.
See the headings below for information on my books, Artful Improv and Adventures in Improv Quilts, my lectures and workshops, and my on demand classes.
I've recently begun offering Independent Zoom workshops that run for three 3 hour sessions over 3 weeks. Sessions are recorded for later viewing. A new class will begin in the fall.
Latest News From Cindy
Hiking Adventure in Iceland
My husband, Phil, and I just got back from a backcountry hiking adventure in Iceland. This is not necessarily a quilt related post, although the landscape was so beautiful I hope there will be some quilt inspiration from the trip. We took four days to hike the Laugavegur Trail, which runs about 38 miles across…
Another Visit to the Crow Barn
I spent the last two weeks of May in Ohio studying with Nancy Crow at her Timberframe Barn studio with a group of other intrepid artists. This was my seventh time studying with Nancy, and it was intense and challenging, as usual. The class was called Creative Stretches in Compositional Exercises–kind of a mouthful. But…
Amazing Galapagos Adventure!
Note: This is a non-quilt related post. My husband Phil and I celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary this month with a trip to the Galapagos Islands about 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador. The area is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in part because of its unique diversity of plants and animals.…