Meet the Artist: Rita Scholz of AmeliaRita Designs
Rita Scholz is the artist and multidisciplinary designer behind AmeliaRita Designs. Her work brings together fashion, textiles, interior design, product development, and surface pattern to create fabrics with a polished yet approachable point of view.
Rita studied fashion, clothing patterning, and textiles before graduating from Ohio State University. She went on to build an award-winning career as a licensed Florida interior designer, with projects featured in magazines and designer show houses.
Her continued study in Italy expanded her work into handbag and footwear design, while her experience with both textiles and leather strengthened her understanding of how pattern, scale, color, and material come together in a finished product.
AmeliaRita Designs blends classic decorative influences with a fresh transitional style. Rita’s fabric patterns include painterly florals, flowing botanicals, butterflies, moths, damask-inspired motifs, geometric coordinates, and directional stripes for apparel, quilting, upholstery, curtains, bedding, table linens, and accessories.
Every design is printed to order in the USA on your choice of 15+ base fabrics with a 1-yard minimum.
Fashion, Interior, and Product Design in Every Pattern
Rita’s professional background gives AmeliaRita Designs a broader foundation than surface pattern alone. Fashion training supports her understanding of drape, scale, garment construction, and wearable color, while her interior-design experience informs how patterns relate across rooms, furniture, windows, and decorative accessories.
Her product-design work adds another practical perspective. Patterns are developed with real finished applications in mind, whether the fabric will become a curtain panel, upholstered cushion, dress, quilt, tablecloth, handbag, or small handmade accessory.
This experience is visible in the balance between expressive focal prints and quieter supporting designs. Large florals, butterflies, and moths create visual impact, while leafy repeats, tonal damasks, small geometrics, and directional stripes provide contrast and coordination.
The result is a collection that feels refined without becoming formal and playful without feeling juvenile. Classic botanical and decorative influences are refreshed through contemporary color, softened geometry, and carefully considered scale.
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Spring Break: Painterly Florals and Coordinating Garden Prints
The Spring Break collection captures the movement, color, and decorative variety of a garden coming back to life. Layered blossoms, leafy vines, daisies, butterflies, moths, damask-inspired florals, and soft geometrics create a coordinated group for spring and year-round sewing.
River Walk serves as one of the collection’s primary statement patterns, combining painterly flowers, green foliage, and small butterflies in a flowing garden composition. Its coordinating designs provide different ways to repeat the collection’s natural motifs and colors without using the same fabric throughout a project.
Moths in Flight, Fly by Night, and Butterfly Stripe introduce winged motifs at different scales and in different arrangements. These patterns can work as feature fabrics, quilt coordinates, garment prints, linings, borders, and smaller decorative details.
Lily Damask gives the collection a more structured and sophisticated botanical option. Its floral diamond repeat provides the familiarity of a traditional damask with cleaner geometry and contemporary color.
Daisies in the Wild and Vines and Leaves offer versatile allover botanicals, while Diamonds Are Real adds a quieter geometric coordinate. Together, these patterns allow the collection to move between florals, wildlife motifs, directional designs, and useful supporting prints.
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Statement Prints, Coordinates, and Multiple Scales
Spring Break includes different pattern scales so customers can choose a repeat that fits the size and purpose of the finished project. River Walk, Lily Damask, and Fly by Night are offered in standard and larger-scale versions, expanding their usefulness across fashion, quilting, and interiors.
Standard and Smaller-Scale Designs
Standard and smaller repeats work especially well for garments, quilt blocks, children’s projects, napkins, linings, bags, and accessories. The motif remains visible without overwhelming a smaller finished piece.
Grande Statement Patterns
Grande versions allow the flowers, damask forms, and winged motifs to create greater impact across curtains, tablecloths, duvet covers, upholstered headboards, larger pillows, statement apparel, and other projects with enough surface area to reveal the complete design.
Coordinating Color Directions
The collection moves through blue, green, ivory, peach, teal, midnight, pewter, rust, and layered multicolor combinations. These related shades appear across florals, foliage, moths, butterflies, damasks, and geometrics, making it easier to coordinate different motifs within one project.
Blue and ivory options feel fresh, classic, and adaptable. Green colorways emphasize the collection’s garden character. Midnight and dark teal create a richer, more dramatic direction, while peach, off-white, and pewter provide softer or more neutral alternatives.
Visit the AmeliaRita Designs Brand page to view every active Spring Break pattern, scale, colorway, and printable fabric option.
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What Makes AmeliaRita Designs Fabrics Distinctive?
- Multidisciplinary design experience: Rita’s background spans fashion, textile construction, interior design, handbags, footwear, and functional product development.
- Classic style with a transitional finish: Florals, damasks, vines, butterflies, and decorative geometry are presented in a fresh, versatile way.
- Focal and coordinating patterns: Statement florals and winged motifs are balanced by leaves, tonal damasks, stripes, and geometric blenders.
- Multiple design scales: Standard and Grande versions allow customers to select a repeat appropriate for garments, quilts, accessories, or large home-décor applications.
- Thoughtful color relationships: Blues, greens, teals, ivory, peach, pewter, rust, and midnight shades repeat across different motifs for easier coordination.
- Designed for finished products: Pattern direction, repeat, scale, and color are considered in relation to interiors, fashion, quilting, table linens, and accessories.
- Broad project versatility: The collection can move from soft garden-inspired sewing to richer, more sophisticated upholstery and decorative applications.
Project Inspiration for AmeliaRita Designs Fabrics
Curtains and Garden-Inspired Interiors
Choose River Walk Grande, Lily Damask Grande, or another larger botanical pattern for curtain panels, Roman shades, upholstered headboards, tablecloths, and statement cushions. Use Vines and Leaves, Diamonds Are Real, or a smaller winged motif for related pillows, trim, and decorative accessories.
Upholstery and Decorative Furniture
Floral damasks, painterly gardens, and darker moth designs can bring distinctive pattern to accent chairs, benches, ottomans, dining seats, and upholstered panels. Select a suitable linen blend, cotton duck, twill, sailcloth, velvet, or other décor-weight base according to the project’s intended use.
Spring and Summer Apparel
Print garden florals, daisies, vines, butterflies, moths, or geometric coordinates on lightweight cotton, cotton sateen, linen, or stretch fabric for dresses, skirts, blouses, camp shirts, robes, scarves, and warm-weather accessories.
Standard-scale repeats work well for detailed garments, while Grande patterns can create bold movement across simpler silhouettes.
Coordinated Quilts and Patchwork
Begin with River Walk, Moths in Flight, Daisies in the Wild, or Lily Damask as the focal fabric. Add Vines and Leaves, Diamonds Are Real, Butterfly Stripe, or a smaller Fly by Night pattern for blocks, sashing, borders, binding, and backing.
The combination of florals, wildlife motifs, stripes, damasks, and geometrics creates variety while the shared color relationships maintain cohesion.
Table Linens and Entertaining
Use the collection across tablecloths, runners, placemats, napkins, chair pads, aprons, and café curtains. A large floral or damask can anchor the table, while leaves, diamonds, or small butterflies provide quieter coordinates.
Blue, green, and ivory combinations create a fresh garden setting, while dark teal and midnight options offer a more dramatic direction for evening entertaining.
Nursery and Children’s Sewing
Daisies, butterflies, moths, vines, and soft botanical colorways translate naturally to children’s quilts, curtains, bedding, clothing, fabric storage, playroom accents, and handmade gifts.
Choose a lighter ground for an airy room or a midnight colorway for greater contrast and visual depth.
Handbags and Fashion Accessories
Rita’s experience designing handbags makes the collection especially relevant for tote bags, structured purses, zipper pouches, cosmetic cases, book sleeves, and travel accessories. Pair a feature pattern with a smaller coordinate for linings, pockets, handles, and contrast panels.
Pillows and Layered Home Décor
Combine a painterly floral, dramatic moth pattern, or Lily Damask with quieter vines, diamonds, or stripes across pillow fronts, backs, piping, and gussets. Related colors allow several patterns to share a space without looking overly matched.
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Discover More Spring Break Inspiration
Explore the Spring Break collection feature for a closer look at the individual designs, colorways, pattern scales, and ways the floral, botanical, moth, butterfly, damask, and geometric fabrics coordinate.
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Printed to Order on Your Choice of Fabric
AmeliaRita Designs patterns are available by the yard on 15+ base fabrics, allowing you to select the weight, texture, drape, and performance best suited to your project. Options include cottons, linens, natural-fiber blends, performance fabrics, and specialty textiles for apparel, quilting, curtains, bedding, upholstery, table linens, and accessories.
- Printed to order in the USA
- 1-yard minimum
- Painterly floral, botanical, moth, butterfly, damask, stripe, and geometric designs
- Standard and Grande scales available for selected patterns
- Multiple colorways available on individual product pages
- Natural-fiber fabrics are steamed, washed, and dried after printing for a soft hand and durable, colorfast results
- Detailed digital printing preserves fine botanical lines, layered floral color, delicate wing details, and clean geometric repeats
How to Order
- Browse the AmeliaRita Designs Brand page and select a pattern.
- Choose the available scale and colorway that best fit your project.
- Select the base fabric you would like us to print.
- Enter the number of yards needed and add the fabric to your cart.
Need help choosing a fabric? Compare specifications and recommended uses in Our Fabrics, order a Ground Fabric Swatch Kit , review our Frequently Asked Questions, or contact The Textile District for personalized assistance.
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