KathyKat

How about a Grandmother's Flower Garden. You can use a huge variety of fabrics for this and then applique the flowers to a white or neutral background and make the quilt any size you want. It would be a quilt she could treasure all of her life.

AZ Jane

Any block of the month.

starshine

My thought what about a Sunbonnet Sue or appliques of the Dolly prints and have them looking into a hand mirror or a wall mirror with the mirror being the baby's photo print. If you do the dolly print you could just use the face, arms, and legs; you could make her dress, shoes etc. out of some of that months fabrics. And if you wanted to use more fabrics add other things to the block like butterflies, flowers, something seasonal for that month. You could even do a mini quilt in the background.

Busy Quilter

Each month with 4 weeks could be 4 patch and 5 weeks you could make the 10 minute block. Then border around each month (color) with white. Great that she is doing this the rest of the material could be made into a comfort for TV watching. My kids love them around 48 inches by 56 inches.

quilterpurpledog

Just a thought from a grandmother of 7. Perhaps plan your quilt for 52 squares and not even squares of the same size. For the first week make a wholecloth design. For the next week do a square that has two fabrics, then three, etc. You can get ideas for the squares from lots of websites or books. At some point you might want to limit the number of fabrics to several of the latest she used for backgrounds. Some of the squares could be postage stamp style using a piece of each fabric used to that point such as a four patch, a nine patch, a sixteen patch, a twenty-five patch, etc. This sounds like a really fun project. Good luck to both of you for keeping up the pace and finishing it for baby's first birthday.

IBQUILTIN

When I first saw your title, I thought "Oh My Goodness, this girl is going to make a quilt to cover her whole town!!!"
Now that I read it, I see your predicament. I like the ideas given to make a log cabin with the coordinating fabric from each month, The pics would be nice too

Ilovesewing

What a fun idea! The Double Slice Layer Cake would work well. Each block uses four fabrics. I have made a couple out of scrappy fabrics and they turn out fantastic.

madamekelly

I had the same idea, but how about using it as a challenge quilt and learning to do a simple portrait with postage stamp squares, of mom and dad for the baby?

localgirl1

checkout Take 5 quilt patterns. they use 5 different fabrics in a block.

QuiltNama

How about Chinese Coins, use small strips of each piece in the coins and a solid piece for the between pieces. There will be a lot of leftovers so use them in other quilts or make baby dresses!