Home Sewing Center

Neck Eat Sewing Center was actually started in 1967 in Rockford. There's no other businesses I had the opportunity to acquire it with some help from Northwest Bank in the financing of the acquisition. My best customers are the hobbyists, the people that sewed or do the machine embroidery for their own pleasure. In the pandemic, a lot of people started sewing that hadn't been sewing because they were home with time on their hands. They pulled out their grandma's machine or their mom's machine and started sewing. So that has created a whole new genre of people. I had to increase the inventory to meet the supply and demand. That's where Northwest Bank has come in to help me acquire the financing to increase that inventory. Kent has been the banker I've dealt with at Northwest through all my business transactions. I had a situation in December where I had a big amount of bills due and I didn't have a big enough line of credit and I called up Kent and said, hey, I need to increase this and it was taken care of. Northwest Bank and the power of yes 50 years in the making.