I too had a similar reaction when I first gave a quilt to my daughter. This was 2 years ago and now that is the only one she uses for snuggles and comfort time. So I asked her why she did not like it in the beginning and she said "well Mom it did not go with anything in my house, it was too busy for me" which I should have known the only 3 colors that are in her house other than a splash of something here and there is black, beige and white...so now I have quieted down the colors and did a two color quilt for her last year and it is on her bed..and her reaction was yeah instead of "oh this is nice Mom". But it did make me stop and think that I do not think I will ever give a scrappy quilt again to someone, I will try and keep within their color scheme. Just putting another thought out there...