I like giving handmade gifts too, but thru the years you find that person who really does not appreciate the gift, so they are the cookies kind of people, everyone appreciates food LOL. I used to do cross stitch and needlepoint. I buy them at thrift stores and yard sales becauser I know the work people put into them. Some day I want to make a quilt using cross stitch pieces I have bought to honor the ladies, and maybe gentlemen, who made these pieces that ended up for sale way below price that the time and materials took to make the piece. I probably have enough pieces to make a couple quilts by now.