My first grandchild LOVED looking at pictures on greeting cards so I really enjoyed making her an I Spy quilt, thinking that she would love the little pictures all over the quilt. I gave it to her when she was around 3 yrs old.
After a year or so I noticed that she never used the quilt so I asked her mother (my DIL) where the quilt was. Well, it was folded up and kept in a closet, never seeing the light of day :-( . I asked her to please take it out so that Cori could use it. I wanted her to play with it and love it to death. I have quilts that my grandmother made and, although I would never let the kids abuse them, I do make sure that we use them. It keeps her memory alive.