Ask him if he uses a microwave for cooking.
there is a wonderful wholecloth quilt in the Smithsonian quilted entirely by machine. Dated somewhere in the mid 1850’s which happens to be when the sewing machine was invented. Tell him the true definition of a quilt recognized as such for 1000 of years is three layers attached together. Never has it been specified how they are attached. One could staple them together and it would be a quilt. On the other hand just smile and say “ thank you” and tell him you had intended giving him a quilt but since it is machine quilted and he said machine quilting is not a quilt, that now you don’t have a quilt to give him.