Sew Inspired - Quilting and Fabrics by Sara Moe

Experience and Qualifications

Sara’s career as a fiber artist had very early beginnings. At the age of 5, in her kindergarten class, she painted a bright red flower on a pastel pink dress that her mom had just made for her, because she felt it was too pale and needed more color. Her love for bright colors and painting on fabric, had early beginnings and she continues to express herself through her brightly colored quilts, fabrics and wearable art. She started sewing her own clothes in Home Economics class in the 7th grade and has been sewing up a storm ever since. Like most teenagers, Sara didn’t listen to her mom, when she urged her to attend fashion design school in New York, but instead she went to the University of Buffalo, in New York where she earned her Bachelor’s degree. She eventually got into sales in the fast growing computer industry, where she worked for over 20 years. In 2001, Sara finally got the opportunity to pursue her true passion, when she was asked to work as a Creative Consultant for Pfaff Sewing Machines. That year Sara started her own company and named it “Sew Inspired” because she wanted to spread her passion for the “Art of Sewing and Quilting” by inspiring her students and customers.

Sara’s passion is to combine her technology expertise, and love for sewing into a career promoting the joy of creative quilting. She is a fiber artist, specializing in creating wearable art and quilting with an emphasis on art quilts that are creative and colorful.

Sara has traveled all over the United States for the last 5 years teaching and inspiring sewers and quilters with her unique and “out of the box” quilts and wearable art. Sara lectures and does workshops at major quilt shows and sewing industry conventions, for sewing machine dealers, quilt shops and Quilt and Fiber Art Guilds throughout the United States. In 2004, Sara began marketing her first quilting product when she introduced her Spinning Pinwheel Basic Design Kit – a template set with CD-Rom that teaches and inspires her customers with her unique curved quilt block designs and curved piecing techniques. Sara believes that providing her customers with CD-ROMs that contained not only quilt directions for her templates but galleries of quilt designs, embellishment guides and machine embroidery designs and appliqué designs provides a valuable product that will truly inspire her customers.

Sara’s newest venture is designing her own fabric line called “Reflexions” which was introduced in May 2006 at the International Quilt Market in Minneapolis Minnesota and is available from Blank Quilting of New York, NY. Click on the Reflexions tab above to view or purchase any of her unique designs.

Other Areas of Expertise:

Curved Piecing techniques
Memory Quilts
Machine Embroidery as an Embellishment techniques for quilting as well as decorative stitch building.
Transforming fabrics through the use of fibers and appliqués
Combining Quilting and machine embroidery to produce magnificent works of art
Wearable art- including, applique, embroidery, quilting techniques and beading