{"id":5133,"date":"2017-08-31T15:12:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=5133"},"modified":"2017-08-31T15:12:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:12:10","slug":"meet-road-2018-vendor-and-teacher-lora-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/31\/meet-road-2018-vendor-and-teacher-lora-kennedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Road 2018 Vendor And Teacher Lora Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Life has a way of turning you upside down&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">At least that &#8216;s what Lora Kennedy has experienced. At one point in her life, she\u00a0found herself a single mom living 200 miles away from any family during a time that her father also passed away.\u00a0 As time healed these wounds, Lora married again and her new husband\u00a0brought her back home to Smithboro, Illinois, five miles from the home she grew up in and where her mom still lives.<\/p>\n\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_5134\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"410\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/classes\/meet-road-2018-vendor-and-teacher-lora-kennedy\/attachment\/lk-bio-pic\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5134\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5134\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LK-bio-pic-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a> Lora and her mother, Virginia[\/caption]\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lora had previously worked with her mom, Virginia, in her mother&#8217;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\u00a0fell in love with long arm quilting and has been doing it since 2005. \u00a0After a couple of years, they outgrew the shed and moved their business, Farmland Quilting &amp; Embroidery, to town.\u00a0 It was there, during a class they were teaching, that their featured product, Stable Piecing\u2122 was born.<\/p>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QK50YlDu2io\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\nThat was 10 years ago. \u00a0Since that time, \u00a0Stable Piecing\u2122 has grown &#8220;tremendously.&#8221; \u00a0 Designing, making samples, writing patterns, doing shows &amp; teaching has taken Lora and Virginia around another corner that has included moving the retail location and their work back to the farm.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/classes\/meet-road-2018-vendor-and-teacher-lora-kennedy\/attachment\/lkheaderimage3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5140\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5140\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LKHeaderImage3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>\nThe newest Stable Piecing\u2122 release is due at the time of Road to California 2018 so their booth will be featuring this new product at the show.\nIn addition to working in her Farmland Quilting and Embroidery vendor booth, Lora is also scheduled to teach four evening classes at Road 2018:\nWednesday: <strong>3062C\u00a0 Twisted Log Cabin<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/classes\/meet-road-2018-vendor-and-teacher-lora-kennedy\/attachment\/lk-twisted-log-cabin\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5138\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5138\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LK-Twisted-Log-Cabin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><\/strong>Thursday: <strong>4062C\u00a0\u00a0 Pineapples Galore<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/classes\/meet-road-2018-vendor-and-teacher-lora-kennedy\/attachment\/lk-pineapples-galore\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5136\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5136\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LK-Pineapples-Galore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/strong>\nFriday: <strong>5065C\u00a0\u00a0 Drunkards Path<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/classes\/meet-road-2018-vendor-and-teacher-lora-kennedy\/attachment\/lk-drunkards-path\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5135\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5135\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LK-Drunkards-Path.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/strong>\nand on Saturday: <strong>6063C\u00a0\u00a0 Storm at Sea<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/classes\/meet-road-2018-vendor-and-teacher-lora-kennedy\/attachment\/lk-storm-at-sea\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5137\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5137\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LK-Storm-at-Sea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/strong>\nLora loves to teach because she gets &#8220;to see the students get to that moment where they all of a sudden get the idea and then the creative ideas start rolling.\u00a0 I want my students to learn a new skill, or revisit an old one in a new way and then be able to use that in whatever they want, however they want.&#8221;\nWhat is Lora&#8217;s best quilting tip? &#8220;To take time to do something for yourself.\u00a0 Take time to just play and not expect any sort of outcome.\u00a0 Just be creative and see where it leads you.&#8221;\nTo learn more about Lora and her company, Farmland Quilting &amp; Embroidery, visit their <a href=\"http:\/\/farmlandquilting.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">webiste <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FarmlandQuiltingEmbroidery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook Page.<\/a>]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,33,37],"tags":[414,696,964,1016,1240],"class_list":["post-5133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes","category-road-to-california-2018","category-vendors","tag-farmland-quilting-embroidery","tag-lora-kennedy","tag-quilt-class","tag-quilt-teacher","tag-stable-piecing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}