In the first year I quilted, one of the teachers in my group was retiring. She was a quilter also. I got fabric together and each member of our teacher group picked two fabrics and on off-white fabric wrote something to the teacher. I put each set together as a square-in-a-square. When I gave it to her at her retirement party, she cried! It made me feel so great.
Just this last January I gave my granddaughter a quilt. I had made curtains for her bedroom in her new house during the summer. I used that fabric and other matching fabrics and made her a bed quilt for her birthday. She called me the night of her birthday and screamed "I LOVE my quilt!" She's eight. It was the best reception a quilt of mine has ever gotten!