Need help from quilters.. Heart Quilt Blocks in trade for donation please read!

Just for the record there is NO quilt listed for sale with seller "Starranch1" 'cause I just looked it up. There is a seller named "Starranch1" but no quilt.

-- Kathy in CA Quilting Stuff:

my prayers for your mom. I know several people that have had gastric bypass surgery and it has helped them tremendously. That said....I work for one of the "big 5" health insurance companies. Has your mom checked (and double checked) with her health insurance carrier about coverage for the surgery? In general, unless the health plan specifically denies this type of surgery it can be covered if she meets "medical necessity" criteria. This may vary by carriers, but at least for my carrier, if she has a BMI of 30 or higher and/or has the "proper" con-current conditions (sounds like she may) she might be able to get the surgery covered. She should have her doctor submit a request for precertification of the surgery with her medical history. Even if she is initial turned down at precertification, she could talk to the human resources department....there should be someone there that can grant a waiver for her to have it covered. If you wish to e-mail me, I can try to be more specific and/or help with the red tape as best I can.

Howdy1 You wouldn't be trying to fool us now, would you, Cheyne? You wouldn't want to cheat a bunch of nice little ol' quilters, right?

If it sounds like bull, and it does....

Ragmop/Sandy--this is my opinion, of course--YMMV

I agree with what others have said. have your mom check with her physician. If she is *seriously* overweight and it is a threat to her helth, many isurance companies will cover the cost of the gastric bypass surgery. It's a hassel to get everything by the insurance people but it can be done. On a side note, the surgery alone does NOT solve the weight problem. If, after the surgery, a person eats improperly or overeats it will have a very negative impact on weight loss. I had a similar (termed a gastroplasty or stomach stapling, not a bypass) surgery done many years ago and changing eating habits is what solves the problem. The surgery makes it a LOT easier to change, tho'! In my surgery, a row of staples was put across my stomach, reducing the size of the stomach that accepts the food. There is a *very* small opening from the new "top" of my stomach to the new "bottom" of my stomach. This means that when I eat, the food goes into the top of my stomach, gets digested so that is goes through the tiny opening to the bottom of my stomach and then gets digested further as it makes the normal trip through my intestines. I get full a lot faster so I eat a LOT less. Even with my type of surgery, you can stretch out that top portion of the stomach so that you can eat almost as much as you ate before. Also, if all you eat is junk, you won't lose weight very fast! HMMMM -- thats probably a LOT more than anyone wanted to know about stomach surgery -- LOLOL! When I had it done -- must be about 20 years ago by now -- the insurance company paid for 90%! I just asked DH and he said our 10% was somewhere around $750.00 -- boy, was THAT cheap -- LOL! CiaoMeow >^;;^< .

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their WHISKERS!! Nothing is complete without a few cat hairs!

I too was feeling this way. Forgive me if I'm cynical but......

I just checked as well, but I looked at all the feedback. This member bought more often than sold....my question is, if there are money troubles, why is this person BUYING things from ebay????

Larisa, more of a skeptic tha usual, I suppose

Kathy > Just for the record there is NO quilt listed for sale with seller

The auction for the quilt ended 8/4...just look under past auctions on this seller.

The quilt was on Ebay---the auction closed on August 4th and there were no bids. It ran for about a week. You can see a picture of it if you ask to also see her closed auctions for the last 2 weeks. I think it's cross stitch. Pretty much the same story was posted on Ebay as we got here. Whatever..............

Betty

HMMMM - I bet you'll gat about as much for you bridge and I will get for the wetlands in Phoenix I have been trying to sell for ages!!! LOL CiaoMeow

Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their WHISKERS!! Nothing is complete without a few cat hairs!

Pieced or Appliqué ?

:) Elena

Cheyne,

This group *does* trade blocks. That's just it, we swap blocks for blocks, not blocks for money. I am sorry that you mother's health is so poor, but you need to understand that this group constantly gets spam posts and posts that go against the rules of this group. Therefore, not a great many people take posts requesting moeny seriously.

It is not really a personal attack at all, just that we are tired of people requesting money for things that all of us can do ourselve (making quilt blocks). Whoever referred you to this group probably would have helped you more by posting a message for you, as it would be coming from someone we know and trust. Having an unknown person post only makes the group, as a whole, entirely leery of the whole concept.

Larisa, wondering just who on this group would encourage you totry selling things on a group that is NOT a market-place type group.

Cheyne wrote:

OKay now.....you have an apartment of your own and are attending culinary classes.neither of which is cheap........sacrifice them both for a while and use the money to help your mom! I know I said this in a past post, but you said you are doing everything you can think of to help.....if you still have the apartment and haven't taken a break from college to help her, you haven't done everything.

Also, there is another diet/fitness program I would like to suggest, and it can be done by people with health issues - it's called Body For Life. It involves changing your diet, weight training, and aerobic activity. Now, I used it to lose weight after my first child and for aerobic activity, I walked for 15 minutes to start with. For weights, I used anything that I could find that was equal weight for each hand. The food is healthy, but you don't eat 3 meals a day, you eat 6 small meals....it works, it really works...something that you might want ot think of.

Cheyne wrote:

Amazingly NOT cross-stitch. Wow! Here's how the quilt was made.....

"I have been obsessed for years with the idea of creating a quilt from tiny squares of fabric...following a counted cross-stitch design. I began with a simple little cross stitch design for a Christmas ornament and quickly learned that it wasn't easy to cut multiple 1" squares of fabric...in perfect measurement so that they would work in a quilt. It was literally years before I figured out how to cut the squares perfectly...and then I began looking for a more challenging pattern. I found this incredible "Old West" pattern, bought the embroidery floss skeins that were required for the pattern...and then went out to find fabric to match those colors. To make a long story short...almost NONE of the colors I needed were available and I spent the next year dyeing the fabric. Once I had adequate amounts of the fabric dyed, I went to work sewing the over 10,500 1" squares together. The piecing alone took over two years. The hand-quilting, binding and detail work took another year...so in total, this quilt took three years to complete. The quilt is made of 100% cotton, hand-dyed fabric. "

Karen, Queen of Squishies

So, I'm a little confused. Are you raising money to go to college or to buy your mom a gastric by-pass surgery. VERY risky, by the way. Lots safer ways of losing weight.

Cindy

Cheyne:

I would be very careful doing what you are on E-Bay. It is in violation of their sellers rules to publish anything other than what is needed to sell an item. Your "send a donation to:" is definitely in violation of their terms of use.

Mardi Wetmore

Real e-mail address spelled out to prevent spam. mardi at mardiweb dot com. ____________________

My Quilting page:

I'm sorry larisa, but someone gave me this link... and they have an account running through Livejournal.com if that helps. I didnt mean to COME here and BEG for money..... I wasnt asking for you to open your pocket books and write me huge checks... I just wrote my story.. and offered something in trade...

Maybe you guys need to realize before you attack someone... the bad guys are the ones who ask you for money for nothing in return... I didnt know that this was group who strictly traded. I just was told maybe i could get some help or suggestions or SOMETHING to help me prayers ANYTHING.... :***(