From One Rocking Chair to Thousands of Business Seats.

Sarah’s Stitches started in a worn-out rocking chair in a church nursery where Sarah Taylor went to soothe her son. Having sewn clothes for herself and her family, Sarah brought the rocker home and took it apart, careful to mark everything as she used the old pieces of fabric as patterns for the new. With the rocker back in action at the church, Sarah turned her new-found skill to her kitchen chairs and then to other furniture for her friends and family.

Sarah’s husband, Jack, helped with pick-ups and deliveries on nights and weekends, working around his job as a manufacturing engineer. In 1997, Jack joined the business full-time.

Their first commercial customer, Sioux City restaurant Johnnie Mars, remains a customer today. Sarah and Jack understood that removing a booth for repair meant lost income for the restaurant. They set a goal of removing the booths early in the morning, reupholstering them, and having them back in the restaurant before lunch time. After the initial job, Sarah had patterns for the restaurants’s furniture, making turnaround times even faster.

Since that nursery rocker in 1994, Sarah’s Stitches has evolved from a passion project to a well-respected industry leader with an unmatched reputation for fast, quality service. Sarah and Jack’s sons Jacob and Skylar as well as other family members have joined the business, ensuring continuity and dedication to the quality and responsiveness of the company now and in the future.

The company serves commercial clients in a range of industries, including restaurant, hospitality, gaming, government, and health care—still with a focus on minimizing the time the client is unable to seat customers.