{Deanna},
Without speaking to your Mom's problems I will tell you something. If you are putting love into your quilts, that love will come back to you. Don't let anyone make you feel bad about how you do what you do, because you are doing your best with what you have, and that is virtue.
My church has a sewing day every month, and we "sew" comforters for "burn-outs"; people in a several-county wide area who have lost their homes in fires. We use pretty sheets for the fronts and backs, and batting in between. Then six or eight of us tie the comforters with yarn or floss, and another one folds under the edges of top and bottom and machine stitches around the edges.
It's not "quilting". But guess what? We get a LOT more of them done, and the need is so great. The people at the local American Red Cross office do not criticize our work, or tell us that we are "cheating". They are so thankful. They tell us stories about the people who have received these comforters, and how much they mean to them. That's love.
Prayers are coming your way (and Mom's too).