The reason I asked is that ANG's website has posted the line drawing for the 2009 Stitch of the Month project. It's a stylized patchwork kimono and obi sash with mandarin collar! You are supposed to print out the line drawing to transfer to your canvas, and then pick an overdye with three colors for the project without knowing really what it will look like in the end as none of the stitches that go in each area have been revealed yet. That is the mystery.
http://www.needlepoint.org/StitchOfTheMonth/2009/jan.php
Note that you need to click on the line drawing and numbered diagram to get larger images to print out, then enlarge the line drawing 200% on a copy machine to get a line drawing that is 8 ¾ inches wide by 10 ½ tall at the tallest/widest points. You may have to enlarge the drawing a bit more than 200% to get the right sized line drawing to put on a 14x14 inch piece of 18 count canvas. Printers can print slightly larger/smaller depending on the printer's settings.
If the idea of transferring a line drawing onto NP canvas has you breaking out into a cold sweat, visit my Yahoo 360 blog and see how I do it. Easy as loosing your favorite scissors!
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-7rjKEjEyc6.dskPWsp8S8mzUleA-?cq=1&tag=tracing-outline
Why do you want to do this? Well, the designer is the fabulously talented teacher Tony Minieri. Joey explains--with illustrations--why you want to study under the man known as The Headmaster.
http://journeywithjoeyb.blogspot.com/2008/04/tony-minieri.html
Janet Perry has blogged a bit about Tony himself and also done two blog entries that discuss choosing colors from your stash and choosing colors based on an overdyed thread to help you get started.
http://www.nuts-about-needlepoint.com/?p=1558
http://www.nuts-about-needlepoint.com/?p=1560
http://www.nuts-about-needlepoint.com/?p=1563
I've heard that ANG's Cyberpointers online chapter is considering stitching this together. You will have to join the chapter to participate, assuming they actually vote to do this project together, but anyone who already belongs can vote for doing the project and participate in the discussion.
I'll probably be stitching this myself on Blog, using congress cloth. So if you want to tackle this mystery project, you are going to have plenty of help in cyberspace.
Time to pick an overdye with three separate colors, find a piece of 14 inch square eighteen-count NP canvas that coordinates with your colors, start looking for a variety of threads in those colors, and print out that line drawing!
Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow
