Last year at a parade I saw a young couple with a beautiful old quilt all hand quilted. They were standing and sitting on it. I wanted to grab it up but it was their quilt. It looked like it had been well used so I was happy to see it continue to be in use, just wish they wouldn't have let people walk all over it. But who am I to talk I have one in the car that is my own creation and it is all hand quilted. I use it for a picnic cloth, ground cloth or to wrap up in and I am sure some people are mortified!!
Some people just can't let things be, maybe you should have offered to sell it to her!