This is so too bad Maddie. There is a disconnect between the background of Alice Walker and the last of the background pieces of information about Everyday Use.
I'm always enthralled by the relationship between children and parents, and so I find the conflict with Dee and the easy going flow between Maggie and her mother are a joy to read about. Every parent secretly wishes they had that easy flow between themselves and their children as Maggie and her mother have. I'm still a bit uneasy about answering because we don't know enough details to eliminate A B C or D. But we know enough, perhaps, to accept E.
Those quilts are seen through the eyes of 2 very different people: one who values living and the meaning of the lives lived and the other who sees objects as museum pieces that should be hung up on a wall and admired for themselves alone.
I'm hesitant about any answer unfortunately, but E is the only one that we have any knowledge about at all. Picking anything else is a guess.
Thank you for posting such interesting questions.