Rita Verroca

Rita Verroca is a world-renowned quilter whose work has been featured on magazine covers and in calendars and books. In her quilts, she combines old heritage-quilt patterns with delightful and playful arrangements. Rita cherishes the traditional art of hand appliqué and hand quilting and wishes to share her contagious enthusiasm for this art form with others. She lives in Colonial Beach, Virginia.

Lecture/Trunk Show: Travel Through Quilt History

In this one-hour lecture/trunk show, Rita will give you insight into different time periods of American quilt making, from its humble beginnings as utilitarian necessity to it’s glorious statement of a Baltimore Album Quilt. Rita will explore on the basis of her quilts various aspects of the art of the American quilt and quilt making. Rita will explore the history and versatility of patterns, the development and use of color in fabrics and find meaning in the artistic expression of quilters, which characterized the lives they lived.

Rita will educate, humor and inspire you with her knowledge of history, personal experience and entertaining stories. Her contagious enthusiasm will ignite in everybody the desire to carry on the art of the American Quilt.

For more information about Rita, visit her website.