The Seams, an occasional NPR series on clothing as culture, has been reporting a series about Florida Seminole Indian patchwork and its heritage and use in tribal life. Read the first installment in ...

How did you get into patchwork? I’d always enjoyed crafting with yarn and fabric, and spinning and things like that, but then when I left university and bought my first house I bought a sewing machine ...

Throughout my life I've enjoyed sewing, embroidery, applique, painting, making the world's first (and only?) giant inflatable Boggle set – but for my first three decades I shunned patchwork. I thought ...