I have had similar conversations with friends and family so I sympathize with your frustration. I think this perception of quiltmaking as trivial is one of the reasons that so many quilts that are gifts are not respected. I was downtown the other day and saw what was obviously an old, handmade quilt being used as a bedliner for a pickup truck. I guess they think, "Why not? You can buy another one for $50 at J.C. Penney's"