I am ready to put this one together I think. It is a pattern from Papillon Creations. I discovered them while browsing this weekend, and I really like a lot of their stuff. I love their "catch phrase" too: Let your Fingers Fly! The pattern is a freebie called Hearts and Flowers. I stitched it on 32 count linen from Silkweaver's Hand dyed collection with Anchor Variegated thread. The fabric color is Chocolate. It calls for some bead work and I am still debating that. I like it the way it is and 32 count fabric means you have to have really tiny beads!

This time instead of back stitching around the outside to join the two pieces, I cross stitched. I wanted more of a color border than I got with the backstitch so I can't wait to see how that goes.

On the hospital front we are stressing out more over what to do with my FIL than we are about the fact that he is dying. After being told on Sunday by the oncologist that he would not be moved until he finished his radiation (2 weeks) we got a call from his hospitalist asking us where we wanted him moved to! By that time Joe and Robin (Tom's brother and his wife) were on their way back to PA. Then we were given false information about what and how medicare would pay for the nursing home, told he qualified for in patient hospice care since he decided to stop treatment, told he didn't qualify for in patient hospice care since he might not be dead in the 5 days...(yes days) that medicare would pay for and then he would be moved to the nursing home after that... 3 moves in 5 days for a terminal patient??? What's the purpose of that?????? Then they wouldn't move him until he had a bed at the nursing home, now they are discharging him today no matter what. We don't have a clue what is going on but I am just about ready to go and get him from the hospital myself and screw them all. What it boils down to isn't what is right for the patient, it is "show me the money". What a miserable world.