Originally Posted by so-sew

I'm making childrens/baby quilts to send to Japan, but I need to use fabric from my stash both due to expense, and the lack of a reasonably priced quilt store in our area. Also, I'm snowed in, but that's another story. Anyway, a lot of my fabric seems so American with cowboys, or little girls with blonde hair and blue eyes printed on it. Also, much of it has writing that is in English. Are any of you considering making your quilts as culturally familiar to them as possible? Because I really feel my quilts are going to be prints those poor little ones won't find appealling. :?