Show Us KIAs Your Quilts: Topics

We 6 Know-It-Alls Plus have been maintaining a 

Facebook group for about two and a half years.

See: 6knowitalls:showusyourquilts

https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=6knowitalls%3Ashowusyourquilts

As far as I can tell we have been posting since November, 2023.

It's a group you have to join but do request membership. We'll let you in promptly. We have about 2,000 readers and contributors.

We want to see your quilts and show off our own photos. Each month we choose a focus based on  fabric, color, techniques, geography, etc. This month the focus is "Regional Clues." What style, fabric, pattern, set and techniques offer a clue to where the quilt was made?

You can ignore the focus, though, and contributors do---

showing us something they just found or asking questions.

From Julie Silber's inventory of antique quilts

 Some readers are total novices and others famous experts. We welcome both. 

Pennsylvania-German descendant Angelina Ritter's deppich (quilt) from

the Goschenhoppen Historians Museum

We'll answer your questions as best we can and bring up new ideas. Our major focus is the visuals---how does a quilt's appearance give us information about the who, where and when a quilt was made. 

Charleston (South Carolina) Museum

As we aren't mindreaders we rarely can tell you Why a quilt was made. 

February 2024

We are fortunate to have many true experts in the group, specialists in regional quiltmaking, dealers who've seen thousands, collectors who own many and textile curators who specialize in various types and ages.

Maine Sampler/Album

Dated 1845-1846 from Cape Elizabeth

We try to be courteous and we'll "86" you if you insult another member.

 But you can swear all you want.

Our archives there contain a LOT of information. 

Search our information by looking for previous posts as topics.

If you don't see this search prompt on your screen look for Search by clicking on the image of the 3 dots.

6KnowItAlls Facebook Group Monthly Topics

2023 November?
11 New York Style
12 Pennsylvania Style

2024
1 Perhaps String Quilts in here
2 Maine Style
3 Feedsacks
4 Early Southern Coast Style
5 Modernism
6 Virginia Style
7 Crazy Quilts
8 Linsey-Woolsey
9 Dogtooth Applique
10 German-American Influence
11 Early Pictorial Applique
12 Scrap Quilts

2025
1 Medallion & Frame Quilts
2 Silk
3 Blue
4 Wool
5 Quilting
6 Dye & Color Problems
7 Inscriptions

8 Home vs Factory Dyed
9 Cotton before 1800
10 Needlework Techniques
11 Professional Designers 1900-45
12 Red & Green Quilts

2026
1 Early Roller Prints
2 Log Cabin Quilts
3 Samplers

4 Regional Clues