What wonderful stories!
So far, I guess the biggest compliment I've received is that my friend won't leave her quilt at the cabin which it was made for. She hauls it back and forth so that no one will steal it. It was a quilt that we actually made together, but she had never done any quilting before, so I was in the lead. I cut, she pieced the blocks, I sewed the blocks together and did all the final quilting and binding.