Colleen Tauke is a quilter, designer, and quilt educator with 40+ years of sewing experience, of those, the last 17 years have been centered around quilting. Presently, she works for a local quilt shop in central Iowa, teaches classes, pattern testing, color options and proof reading for American Patchwork and Quilting, longarm quilt for a variety of local quilters, and create custom quilts.