Hi Adam. Good to plan for next year. Does she have a favorite color?? Does she quilt? I myself have been quilting for over 25 years and my DWR is still a UFO that I will never finished. But Bargello are not really that hard. It is a bit of a challenge to pick out fabrics but that is what your LQS can help you with beside the advice this board can give. This is a free pattern from Northcott fabric.
http://www.northcott.net/newspdf/Ser...reePattern.pdf
I have posted this pattern and a few quilters have made a quilt using this pattern. I made this one using the scraps we received for charity quilts from Robert Kaufman.