A similar thing happened to me. I purchased a Judy Neimeyer pattern called flying south to do for my DIL. I got it and later decided it was too complicated for me and set it aside. Last summer an anvil pattern was featured in one of my quilt magazines and I decided it was more my speed. Only when I ut both patterns side by side did I realize that ti was thevery same pattern with different construction techniques and lay out. :lol:
Isn't it funny how it seems to happen. WE pick a pattern or layout and then do it again years later and don't even realize it!