Your quilt is a masterpiece and you should be proud and happy to have made such a nice gift for someone you love. Unfortunately, people that don't make treasures like this quilt, don't know or understand what goes into them. In the "old days" sewing was the cheap way to have clothing. Now days, quilt fabric is expensive and the time and talent it took to do this presentation is literally priceless. Your heart was in the right place and you did the generous, loving and kind thing. Way to go!