Jake Finch started sewing in the late 1980s. In 1999 she joined the Simi Valley Quilt Guild and spent a year as programs and workshop chairperson before assuming her current position as guild president. Jake has also been a field editor for The American Quilter Magazine, and is now managing editor of Mark Lipinski's Quilter's Home Magazine. She writes for other national quilting magazines, speaks and teaches at guilds, shops and retreats. Jake's quilts have won several regional awards.