time to step outside your box and accept the challenge of working with something you never work with. buy the fabrics SHE liked- browse through lots of pictures, books, magazines- and try something new.
it took me years to finally force myself to use black & white---i just could not get my mind around black in a quilt as a predominite part---now- 3 black & white quilts later i am quite comfortable with black---but that first one was a definite challenge!
that is how we grow and learn---by trying new things- with fabrics we would never choose ourselves.