Welcome to the Quilt Board. I was born and raised in Miami but I now live in Central Florida also and I have a 1955 Singer that I love for quilt piecing. I took a class on Seminole patchwork and I made a few items. It is not as difficult as it looks with the new method of cutting and sewing. I hope you try it out for yourself. My daughter used to live in Homestead and she was a school teacher but she moved to Marianna in the Florida panhandle and she loves it there.