Maybe they didn't understand that the quilt wasn't finished. Communications during gift giving gets confusing. Gift giving is really hard on the giver when lots of time, effort, thought, expense and love are put into a gift. Some recipients have a hard time receiving such a wonderful gift, some recipients just don't know how to be thankful, and the gift giver feels hurt. Alot of us on QB have been through this reaction, take the quilt back, finish it, put a loving label on it and let it go. You did an awesome thing by making a king size quilt, I wish you were my daughter in law.
Originally Posted by
smm06
For Christmas I was planning to have a king size quilt completed for my in-laws. This year was crazy (which they would understand why I was so busy) and I was unable to have the quilt completed. So I wrapped up the quilt top and stated I would take it back and get it quilted and returned in January. The only response the quilt top go was "It's nice". This makes is very hard for me to want to finish the quilt for them as I spent so much time and effort to make them this gift. Has this happened to others? How do you get over the lack of reaction to gifts that you spend so much time on?