These monkeys! I suppose the toucans are pretty cute too, but did you see the monkeys?!?! Most of the vines and background are varying shades of teal and blue, but the monkeys are navy, and their bananas are yellow. Materials:…

It’s done! I’ve already featured blocks A & C in recent posts; you can read about their construction here and here. Block B was the simplest, and the most used in this quilt. Of 35 blocks, 17 were Block B.…

Light and Bright, part two! This quilt has 3 different blocks. Block C was revealed in THIS POST, as were my behind-the-scenes notes for adjusting the pattern. Block B will be shown along with the finished quilt in my next…

Behind the scenes: Most of the quilts I have made over the years have been baby quilts for friends’ littles. Last year, baby Five arrived, and my friend posted a photo of Five wrapped up in One’s quilt, with the…

Quilting is easy.  Blogging about it is not.  I decided to create this blog mid way through this quilt project, so I don’t have a ton of photos.  I thought to myself, “I’ll make diagrams to show directions, since I…

The calendar says the Year of the Dog is coming.  Here at Darcy Quilts, it is clearly the Year of the Giraffe! I love giraffes, and I’ve got four different giraffe prints, and somehow none of them go with another.…