I have had a neighbor ask me if the quilt I'm making if for them.... NOPE.
After that comment was repeated numerous times their "name" has since been moved from my "mental list" of future recepients.
I make and give quilts to those who least expect it, and let me say that whether they like it or not is not important to me. It makes ME feel good to have given it to them. Once in their hands it's for them to do with as they wish.
Side note: I have yet to find that I have chosen someone who doesn't appreciate it...maybe it's not the quilt, but the fact that someone did something that indicated they were being thought of in a positive light.