I have a artist sister of my heart, who has beautiful art work in many places around the country. I ask her for ideas all the time, some I use, some not, not a problem for me. her ideas are so great, and she helped me so much when I first started quilting, and I learned so much about color, that I am so glad I had her close by to help me. Remember this, you had the idea first and she may have given her idea to make it what more exciting, well from the get go it was your idea, not hers. I ask hubby all the time for his input, some of it is good, (what I want him to say) some not so good, (how dare he not like it) LOL The thing for me is my love to just make quilts, have this need to just do it! If some one gives me an idea to make them better, well I'm ahead of the game. I get to make an even better one than on just my own, isn't that why we all buy patterns? JMHO