Navigating Darcy Quilts – A Different Kind of Tutorial

This tutorial is not about quilts or quilting, but is instead a quick look at how to navigate Darcy Quilts. 

There are lots of great tutorials and patterns within my website, and I want to take a minute to help you navigate the site to find exactly what you are looking for when you stop by.

Navigating Darcy Quilts

From a desktop, this is what the main Darcy Quilts homepage looks like.

If you scroll down, the most recent blog posts are listed chronologically.  You can see that I took these screen shots a few weeks ago, as there have been more posts since then.

While these photos are for the desktop version, the mobile version homepage looks essentially the same.

Recent Posts and Archives

Over on the right hand side, some recent tutorials and patterns are listed by name, as seen here in the highlight.

Just below that are the archives.  You can pull up any month that Darcy Quilts has been around, going all the way back to January 2018.

Quilting Basics

If you are new to quilting, or just looking for a refresher, I highly recommend clicking on the Quilting Basics headline in the center of the homepage.

Quilting Basics is a series of tutorials, walking you through many steps of How to Quilt, including rotary cutting, piecing with an accurate ¼” seam, basting and more.

All of these tutorials are linked on this one page.  From the desktop, you’ll need to scroll down to find the tutorial you are looking for, and scroll through the photos since it doesn’t all show in one screenshot.

Re-doing the Basics tutorials is on my to-do list in 2024, not because there is anything wrong with the tutorials as they are, but because I am a better photographer now and because I am tired of looking at that ugly yellow cutting mat in photos.  Yellow is still my favorite color, but it’s just not a good look here. 

This is what the same page of information looks like on a mobile device.

How to get to the Quilting Basics is a little bit different on mobile.  Instead of having the title in the menu right there on the homescreen, there is an arrow.

Click on that, and the menu will drop down.  That’s where the link is.

Searching Darcy Quilts

Now that you know how to navigate Darcy Quilts, lets talk about how to search for exactly what you are looking for.

In the upper right of all pages, is a magnifying glass.

Click on the magnifying glass and a search bar pops up.  Thinking you might like to re-read some scrappy tutorials, I’ve searched here for scrap.

This brings up dozens of tutorials that have the word scrap, scraps, scrappy, etc. in the title and the body of the tutorial.  There are currently 4 pages of scrappy tutorials. 

If I meet my goal of writing more scrappy tutorials, there will be more and more pages over time.  This next photo shows the search results on mobile, this time I searched for baby to pull up lots of baby quilt tutorials.

Guess what, there is significant overlap between “scrap quilts” and “baby quilts” in my tutorials.  Shocking, right?

What type of quilt pattern are you most looking for? 

Curves?

Paper piecing?

Star Quilts?

Triangle Quilts?

Jelly Roll Quilts?

It’s all there.  Search for anything and see what comes up!

And, of course, if you search and don’t find what you are looking for, in the same menu as the basics link is another link to Contact Us.  You can send emails directly to me through that link.