I would like to say that I'm shocked people actually say those things. Sadly, I am unsurprised. I recently completed my first quilt. It's a lap size done with a batik jelly roll. My own mother, who has never quilted anything, saw the fabrics I was putting together and then began to make several suggestions as to what I could do differently, and what colors I should leave out. A week or so later, when it was finished, I took it to her house and showed it to her. She seemed stunned that it turned out to be pretty.