I would show her a few patterns and let her choose one or have her show you a picture of what she has in mind. This summer I was asked to make a quilt for an upcomming wedding. The clint started to decribe what they wanted but I was still unclear as to what they wanted so I asked them to go on line and look at quilts and email me a picture of something like they wanted. Worked out great. By the way, I would have gone in another direction from what they were telling me the picture cleared everything up.