I thought I was just not a very good searcher. I'm always impressed when others post a link to a thread in answer to a question that has been discussed in the past. I try searching for things and generally find myself plowing through a fair bit before I find what I'm looking for. Either that, or I have tried a search when I know exactly the key words and the search is too narrow and returns nothing. I didn't realize the search function was for titles only. That makes it more difficult, because we sure don't title threads to reflect the discussion!!
All that said - the only way I found this site was by searching for something to do with my fat quarters using Google. A thread came up in Google, and voila, I was hooked.