Great post!!
I don't make quilts for anyone but my family b/c I know they will appreciate them. If someone close to me remarks on one I've made I will gladly make them one.
It's not that I get my feelings hurt- for me it's all the time and work involved. I want to know it will be used and enjoyed.
Now that one of my boys is married I make sure my DDIL likes the colors before I make something. It's like art, as someone else said- subjective.