Over the years we gave our Grandmother many pretty and handcrafted items--doilies, embroidered tea towels and pillowcases, etc.--and she would always say that the gift was too nice to use and she would put it away and we could have it back after she died. Guess what--that is exactly what happened. Very very sad. I would have rather received my embroidered tea towel, tattered and stained, because then I would have known that it was good enough to use.