Let her try a nine-patch quilt. You can start with block pieces of 4 1/2 inches (4 inches when seamed), and let her decide how she wants to quilt it, or teach her to quilt in the ditch or along the seams. This is a simple quilt to start with. She can decide what the materials she wants in the quilt, remembering that she will need plenty of white muslin for the white blocks in the nine-patch square. She could also try cutting these pieces out by cutting long pieces of material of 4 1/2 inches and then take the seams off of the strips when they are sewn together. You can sew these together and make three block strips so that she would not have to sew so many of the individual blocks together. Hope this helps, and that it makes sense.