Size: 101 x 101
Technique: Hand Appliqued & Hand Quilted

Inspired by Baltimore Album quilts, the Grand Dame of applique quilts, Rita used the setting of the 19th Century Chintz Medallion quilts to create her Album of Roses. Carefully arranged flowers in baskets and cornucopias frame the center medallion flower wreath while doves and colorful birds give her graceful design an exuberant airy feel.

* Winner at IQS Houston in 2011

* Cover of Quilter"s Newsletter No. 429, 2012

* Featured in a book by Rita Verroca "Baltimore Album of Roses • Elegant Motifs to Mix & Match • Step-by-Step Techniques—Appliqué, Embroidery, Inking, Trapunto" June 2015 

Size: 82 x 106
Technique: Hand Appliquéd, Hand Pieced & Hand Quilted

Using the sunburst pattern as her tool to paint the sun in it's various intensities, Rita combines pieced blocks and appliquéd flowers and birds to celebrate nature. Prairie roses, rose trees, carnations, pineapples and pomegranates, beautifully hand stitched in stunning tile appliqué, surround the sun in glorious colors and indulge in it's warming rays.

* Winner IQS Houston 2003

* Cover of Quiltmania Magazine: Spesial Houston 2003, Hors-serie No.5

* Featured in: 500 Traditional Quilts by Karey Patterson Bresenhan, 2014 by Lark

Size: 105 1/2 x 105 1/2
Technique: Hand Appliquéd, Hand Pieced & Hand Quilted

The traditional Lady of the Lake pattern is the only pattern known by only one name, after a poem by Sir Walter Scott published in 1810. A line in this love song " kind creeping shrubs of a thousand dyes...." inspired Rita to design a lush floral appliqué border of vining shrubs with calla lilies, lotus blossoms and layered water lilies that create " a scenery of a fairy dream...". The 5000 plus pieces of the quilt in a rainbow of colors seem to twinkle in this hand appliquéd, hand pieced and hand quilted work of art.

* Cover of Quilter's Newsletter No.375, 2005

* Featured in: 500 Quilts by Karey Patterson Bresenhan by Lark

Size: 98 x 98
Technique: Hand Appliqued, Hand Pieced & Hand Quilted

As the pioneers got ready for their journey to the western territories, they brought with them a life saving essential. The Quilt was carried with them from the Old Word to comfort the soul, hanged on a wagon to provide privacy, spread out by the camp fire on cold nights or rolled up in a bedroll on the back of a horse. A quilt would be a constant companion that led the way into unfamiliar territory. Inspired by the four-block quilts in the Pennsylvania- Deutsch tradition, ' Prairie Trail captures the feel of a sprawling landscape with big flowers and chirping love birds. One can easily imagine women walking along side their wagons during the day and stitching by candlelight at night in eager anticipation of the New World in which a quilt would provide warmth, shelter and comfort.

* Winner IQS Houston 2005

* Cover of Quilter's Newsletter No. 388, 2006

* Featured in: 500 Traditional Quilts by Karey Patterson Bresenhan, 2014 by Lark
 

Size: 90 x 90
Technique: Hand Appliquéd, Hand Pieced & Hand Quilted

Rita created this stunning quilt by mixing appliqué motifs with a classic patchwork design for "Quilts: A World of Beauty" contest sponsored by Quilter's Newsletter Magazine. "Roses of Shennandoah" received first prize in the Traditional Applique Category in the International Quilt's Association's 2009 in Houston, Texas. 
Rita successfully revisited the art of American quilt making by combining historic applique patterns, multilayered paisley roses, birds, poppies and coxcomb designs with the Mariner's Compass and Split Mariner's Compass. She splendidly breathed new life into old familiar patterns that American quilters have enjoyed for centuries.

*Winner IQS Houston, Texas, 2009

*Featured quilt and Theme for IQS Show in Long Beach, 2010

*Winner World Quilt Show, Manchester, NH, 2011

*Cover of Quilter's Newsletter No. 415, April/May 2010

*Featured in: 500 Quilts by Karey Patterson Bresenhan by Lark

Size: 97 x 97
Technique: Hand Appliquéd, Hand Pieced & Hand Quilted

Winner of the international competition in Quilter's Newsletter to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the magazine's existence, Rita designed the Center Medallion, two splendid horses pulling a carriage with the inscription " Big Parade " and it's surrounding 12 blocks to invite the viewer to a land of imagination and inspiration, the theme of the contest. A parade to celebrate the event - a parade of blocks, set in the fashion of a Baltimore Album quilt, displays symbols of the joyous event: Music for one, symbolized by the harp, sets the tone and the decorated flowers in garlands and cornucopias set the ambiance to praise the occasion.

* Cover of Quilter's Newsletter No. 365, 2004

* Featured in: 500 quilts by Karey Patterson Bresenhan by Lark

* Grand Prize of Quilter's Newsletter Magazine's Birthday Contest

* Special Exhibit: Baltimore Album Review II  "Baltimore's Daughters - Friends Stitch    Past to Future"

* IQA Quilt Market/Houston Oct. 30- Nov. 1

*IQA Festival/Houston Nov 4-7 2010