“Life has a way of turning you upside down”
At least that ‘s what Lora Kennedy has experienced. At one point in her life, she found herself a single mom living 200 miles away from any family during a time that her father also passed away. As time healed these wounds, Lora married again and her new husband brought her back home to Smithboro, Illinois, five miles from the home she grew up in and where her mom still lives.
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Lora had previously worked with her mom, Virginia, in her mother’s custom drapery business. When Lora returned to Illinois, her mother had opportunities come her way that led her to buy a Nolting long arm quilting machine and open a small fabric shop on her farm. Lora fell in love with long arm quilting and has been doing it since 2005. After a couple of years, they outgrew the shed and moved their business, Farmland Quilting & Embroidery, to town. It was there, during a class they were teaching, that their featured product, Stable Piecing™ was born.
That was 10 years ago. Since that time, Stable Piecing™ has grown “tremendously.” Designing, making samples, writing patterns, doing shows & teaching has taken Lora and Virginia around another corner that has included moving the retail location and their work back to the farm.




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