Dishcloth Swap Question of the Week

There are many people who ADORE receiving hand-knit or crochet items; but there are just as many who have no appreciation whatever of how much love, work, and time goes into a hand-made item. Share a story of a hand-made gift you gave to someone and how it worked out - good, bad, or ugly!

I used to work with a woman... we'll call her Megan. She wasn't one of my best friends, but we spent some time together after work and stuff. There were four of us who would sometimes go to a movie or get dinner. When Megan got pregnant we were all happy for her... I started a log cabin baby blanket as soon as she announced the sex of the baby, and we decided to throw her a baby shower. She wanted a FULL-ON baby shower. Not the kind of low-key, relaxed food and cake kind of affair that I would have wanted, but a shower worthy of her Junior League friends. We worked our asses off and spent WAAAAAAY more money than we could afford and we threw her a fabulous baby shower.
She said thank you and sent the appropriate thank-you cards... and then she went on maternity leave. She stopped returning calls and emails to all of us.
About a month later we all got emails announcing the birth of her baby. I had finished the blanket at that point so I waited a few weeks and then called her to set up a time to visit her at home.
When I got there she was in her room. Her brother let me in and then I sat in her living room for almost half an hour. Alone. Finally she came in with the baby. The baby was cute and she looked exhausted. I told her I wouldn't stay long. She opened the gift bag with the blanket in it, said, "Oh, thanks," and stuffed it back into the bag.
I chalked it up to exhaustion and didn't think much of it at the time... but I never received a thank you note... she never returned any of my calls.
She didn't come back to work and we all kept trying to get in touch with her - we were sort of worried about her, since she dropped off from all of us. About a year later, Andie and I ran into her at Target. She acted like nothing had happened and actually said, "Thank God for my Junior League friends! This year has been really rough."
We apparently weren't good enough to be her friends anymore. I wanted to ask her for my blanket back.