My DIL has her own ideas and whenever I talk about making a quilt for my grandson, she takes over the design. She has never even let him use the first quilt I made for him, it was a wall hanging for years until he out grew it. I appreciate that she didn't want it to get ruined, but that was not the point of making it. I will never forget years ago I had made a very simple and easy to make quilt for a nephew that was just born. When he was 5 he said to me one day "PLWEEZE....MAKE ME A NEW BLUE BLANKET! His mother had hidden it from me because it was in tatters. I had never felt so flattered in my entire life. And of course I immediately made him a new one.