A friend saw a quilt I'd made at a Carol Doak class - $10 a yard fabric - cost of the book plus cost of the class too - it easily came to a couple of hundred dollars -and she said "It's my 25th wedding anniversary soon - I'd love that quilt; I'd put it on the wall". So, what do you do? It was my first very complicated star pp quilt in my favorite colors but I gave it to her. Fast forward a few months and I'm visiting and the quilt is face up the pool table "to keep the cats off it". So now I'm very choosy about who I give my quilts to.
And my ddl doesn't seem to want anything making for the new, first, grandchild - maybe she doesn't share my taste - but I've made him a play mat anyway....