Oh Cathy, I feel your pain. It has never happened to me with a quilt )YET!) but definitely with a cake -- and more than once. Ya know how you an just feel it in your bones when you give the "yes." Then things begin to happen. It's almost like Murphy's Law. I've made wedding cakes for children of friends when l half-way offered and half-way agreed to do it at no-cost labor!! Things never seemed to go right. Many mishaps along the way. Was so afraid to deliver for fear of DROPPING IT. So yes, I feel your pain. I have since learned -- no freebies.