Joyce R. Becker Landscape Quilts
Joyce R. Becker Landscape Quilts
I designed and created this quilt specifically for the cover of a quilting novel I have written. Cross your fingers for me and maybe I will find a publisher soon! I painted the sky fabric with textile paints and also enhanced the water fabric with textile paints and wax pastels. I used my slick method […]
18″ x 18″ 2008 Have you ever wanted to create a unique quilt, just for the heck of it…..This is a “green” quilt, using an extensive collection of dryer lint collected by myself and many of my quilting friends. Most of the quilt, excluding the sky, is made up of dryer lint, overlays of Angelina, […]
55″ x 42″ March 2007 Inspired by a calendar by Douglas Leighton, with his permission This quilt was made as a sample for a workshop I taught at Quilt Art in the Rockies in 2007. This quilt was inspired by Douglas Leighton’s amazing photography of the Banff, Alberta, Canada area. I incorporated ultra-suede for the […]
44″ x 43″ Summer 2005 Here’s another case when fabrics seem to dictate a new quilt – A lover of SkyDye hand-painted fabric by Mickey Lawler, I had a delightful yellow and lavender piece on hand. When McKenna Ryan designed her wonderful line with reflections of trees, I knew the two fabrics were meant to […]
24″ x 28″ 2002 Inspired by a watercolor painting by William Winden, with his permission, Twilight at Paradise reinforces my continued infatuation with Mt. Rainier. Twinkling stars in the sky are actually “hot-stones” set on a commercial sky fabric that I over-painted with textile paints. The rock formations on the mountain are actually dryer lint […]
66″ x 47″ By Joyce R. Becker From the collection of the Silverdale Lutheran Church, Silverdale, WA This three-dimensional piece incorporates a myriad of surface design techniques including; bonding, fusing, overlays with tulle and polyester organza, stamping, extensive thread work, machine embroidery, dye and textile painting and machine quilting. Commissioned to create a piece incorporating […]
Here’s another sample I designed for RJR Fabrics using the Dan Morris line. The hardest part was making all of those pesky trees! Click to view detail image larger: Save
31″ x 31″ Fall 1999 This quilt was made as a “Challenge Quilt” for the Evergreen Piecemakers Quilt Guild’s annual show. The challenge was to use only gray, white, and black fabrics – with just a “touch” of red. I won First Place and Viewer’s Choice with this piece. I used many techniques including: textile […]
