I too had an experience similar to yours. I made a friend one, she was going thru a rough time, and I did it to comfort her. She barely looked at it when I gave it to her, and never said another word about it. But her sister told me that my friend loves it, is just shy about expressing her feeling about homemade things. When at my friends house once, her sister said something about stealing the quilt, my friend pipped in and said "no way, I love it, use it every day". So I guess it was a good thing I made it for her.