In the early 70s my MIL made me a gorgeous crazy quilt type long skirt out of various silky fabrics also with hand embroidery that I wore for years.
In the 60's all my sewing attention was directed toward making clothes. I seemed to think I needed a new outfit every week or so! Funny thing how that changed once Daddy wasn't paying all the bills...
The old fellow that used to be the sewing machine fixit guy where I lived in the late 80s/early 90s very proudly showed me the heavy polyester twill quilt of large multicolored squares that his wife had made (probably in the 60s or 70s). Don't know what happened to it after he passed on.