Over 20 yrs ago when I was first getting into quilting I made my brother (and several others that year for Christmas presents) a quillow, easy, simple, kinda looked good from a distance but really very amateur, nothing special, not a heirloom. Ths is my half brother, we didn't grow up togeter, he didn't even know I exsisted until he was 10, we spent most of our lives 3000 miles apart. But I would visit when I could, not very often. Anyway, a few years after I gave him that quilt he left his wife of 30 yrs, and had carefully planned it by taking his personal things from the house that he wanted & hiding them before he told her he was leaving. At one of my visits he was telling me about this & said the first thing he took was that quilt! I was so shocked that he thought that much of it & even still had it.
So you just never know when something you give does mean something, when I see some of those quillows I made that year I cringe, they are really poorly made & ugly.