I always read topics like this with interest, since it is my goal to make each of my immediate family members a quilt before I leave this world. I've finished 4, and it seems that they liked them. I just hope everyone will appreciate them; but at least I will have had the pleasure of making them and gifting them. It's their loss if they toss them away. I told my brothers if they don't like them, please return them and tell me what they would like. Might as well have something they'll use!