Ok I don't have a quite pattern idea and I might sound a little ridicule here but if you really want to do something for her that will help then try buying her a book. Any of these will do.
Cancer Step Outside the Box by Ty Bollinger
The Breast Stays Put by Pamela Hoeppner
Outsmart Your Cancer Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That work by Tanya Harper Pierce
Cancer Free Your Guide to Gentle, non-Toxic Healing by Bill Henderson
these are just a few but they are the best place to start.
I was diagnosed in with breast cancer in 2008 or was it 2009, can't really remember now but the point is I let them do a biopsy to confirm that I indeed had cancer and I did. But I opted to find my own way of dealing with it. I can gladly say that I made the right decision by NOT letting traditional medicine turn my cancer into a causality. I was told then that I only had 5 years at best if I didn't under go their cut and burn method and if I tyed to do it on my own I still only had about a 5 year chance of getting through it.
Well, it's been 5 years, I'm still living, no sickness at all, I did change up my diet some but not to drastically and I still smoke cigarets so as far as I'm concerned, THEY LIED!!! and the original lump has shrunk down to about nothing now.
No I don't advise smoking to anyone, cancer or not but I wanted you to see my point and that's the only reason I'm telling that.
So make her a quilt if you feel the need but also buy her a good book on the subject, it will be more then helpful to her and could possible save her life in the end.