I've always gotten good reactions for my quilts. We were always encouraged to make gifts for each other.
Gave one to a niece for a wedding gift, received a very nice thank you note, six months later they bought their first home and I received a letter saying they were decorating their bedroom around the quilt.
My brother asked me to make a quilt for his wife. She wanted to make one but has MS and has lost fine motor control. When I asked her what design and colors she wanted she said Split Rail and every color. I used the color order of a color wheel and did the colors on the diagonal. It looked like a rainbow. She told my mom that no one had ever made anything so beautiful for her before.
My grandson is 5 and has 3 quilts. (Only one grandchild so far.) He loves and uses them all. Whenever he sees a new quilt in progress in my sewing room he asks if it is for him. He wants another one.