Story Time Sampler Fabric and Floss

Since I've gotten back into cross stitching one of the pattern companies I really enjoy is The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery.  They do lots of fun samplers where they reveal the pattern slowly over a few months.  They have done a yearly pattern (one part of the pattern every month for a year) for the last few years which I've always been tempted by but never willing to quite take the jump.  That all changed this year for 2015.  They are doing a Story Time Sampler with twelve literary characters. The sneak peak with a little Alice from Wonderland was enough to do me in! The first part of the pattern comes out on the 15th and I wanted to be ready to go so I had to get my floss and fabric all gathered together.

Isn't it beautiful! The colors almost filled the ring I keep them on and they just laid out so beautifully perfectly on top of the linen (this will be my first cross stitch design on linen.) I really hope I can keep up every month, stitching what I'm sure will be a wonderful design!