BUT I DON'T WANT A BRIGHT QUILT!

I am getting ready to make a memory quilt for my daughter.  Just before she left the country for four months I took her to the quilt shop.  I asked her to show me some fabrics she liked.  She knew immediately that she was picking out the fabric for her quilt.  She is the youngest so she knows the routine.  She started to pull the things that caught her eye.  She just kept saying, "but I don't want it to be bright"  This is what I have to work with!  Now I am left with how to make the quilt timeless and not bright.  Wish me luck.