It’s not often that you can transform your life’s passion into a lucrative home-based business. But Kathy Furth was successful in expanding her heirloom stitching skills into Sew Many Seams, a specialized sewing service that specializes in stitching church vestment clothes, christening gowns and wedding gowns.

Furth will show off her work and talk about her needlework, business and travels at 7 p.m. Thursday with the Black-Eyed Susan Smocking Guild at its monthly meeting at North County High School, 10 E. First Ave. The lecture was originally planned for January, but the “no snow, snow day” which closed county schools, postponed the program.

Furth’s grandmother taught her how to sew when she was just eight-years-old. She said she was the only grandchild who was interested enough to learn how to stitch needlework. “I was the only one she taught. Nobody else showed an interest in it,” Furth said.

For her grandmother, sewing was a necessity of the times – she had five children during the Depression, so she saved money by sewing all of the family’s clothes.

By the time she was in high school,I went in search of Cheap Wedding Dresses with sleeves, modest necklines, and hems that hit at the knee or below. Furth was begging her home economics teacher to let her sew something more challenging than the simple apron everyone else in the class was making. Her assignment was to create a red French velvet floor length cape, lined in white taffeta with gold frog closures at the neck to wear to the February junior prom. She not only finished the cape in time for the prom, Furth said that she was the only one in the class to get an “A” for the sewing project.

Furth spends most of her time painstakingly hand stitching elaborate embroidery work. While she owns a sewing machine that can stitch embroidered designs and pictures, she prefers the hand stitched work. “A lot of the younger generation wants instant gratification. They don’t want to do anything that you have to rip out if you don’t do it right,” she said.

Furth said she stitched her first church vestment project about 13 years ago for the Elizabeth Seton Parish in Crofton.I'm just going to look at the new formal office dresses for women. “It’s a passion,” she said.

Furth receives many unusual jobs. She was the seamstress that was commissioned to make the 40-by-40-foot veil that covered the statue of retired Oriole Brooks Robinson that was unveiled at Camden Yards last season. The project was so large that she had to contact her parish priest to get permission to use the church hall.

This past weekend, she was awarded two honorable mentions out of a field of over 800 submissions at the Woodlawn Needlework competition and show held in nearby Virginia. One of the award winners was a hand embroidered Japanese silk thread painting that she completed as a class project at a recent stitching workshop. “It was a technique I’d never tried before,” said Furth.AmorModa today announces their Wholesale high neck wedding dresses are still available with great discounts, up to 59% off.Laboissonniere pointed out that director Eric Schaeffer had initially wanted to put Dolly in a white embroidery lace for the finale instead of a red one.

She had the distinct pleasure of creating wedding gowns for two daughter-in-laws. Her work also included the vestments worn by the priests on the altar at the wedding, the bridesmaids’ gowns, flower girl and ring bearers’ outfits and her own mother-of-the-groom dress. She completed the 26 garments all worn in the same wedding in a three-month period of time while she was recuperating from major surgery.

She explained that the mother of daughter-in-law Erin had passed away when she was a little girl. Erin asked Furth to incorporate part of her mother’s wedding gown into her own. Furth carefully took apart the dress to re-use the arms of the old gown in the new gown. After the wedding she then spent hours disassembling the original gown, which was made largely from panels of sheer viola fabric, which is one of the sheerest fabrics in existence.

Furth said that when the first of her five grandchildren was on the way, she realized that the more than 100-year-old family christening gown was too delicate to put a wiggling, moving baby into. The gown had been made by the grandmother that taught her to stitch and had adorned 35 relatives at their baptisms. It gave Furth the perfect opportunity to stitch five heirloom christening gowns - one for each of her children – so that the tradition could be restarted.

Grandson Patrick, who was born in March, wore a christening gown adorned with shamrocks and the Celtic cross designed by Furth and other designs that were transferred from her grandmother's christening gown. Her projects have been described as eclectic, but they are all definitely unique and one-of-a-kind.Pretty Wholesale Cheap Bridal Dresses that let little girls be little girls.