Picked 1 possibility for a quilt for my daughter, Starry Night. I think with modern colors it could be brought up to date. I know she wouldn't go for the Americana look.
2025/October After quilting all these intervening years, I see more possibilities for these patterns! I like the scrappy wonky plaid stars. And I can see using the gingerbread man quilt as a place to applique shapes of cookie cutters we used in the 1950's to preserve the memory of that time. I also am grateful for our library systems that keep books so we can revisit them. Oh, and the daughter referenced in the 2013 comment still loves stars :)