15th, Winter, 515 AV
Toppe's Traipsing
To start the project Cerys had a simple selection of supplies spread out in front of her. A measuring tool, an ink stick, several pieces of thick parchment, and a sharp cutting blade. This step was the simplest, and as long as her measurements came out correctly, shouldn't take more than a bell.
On one piece of parchment she laid down her measuring instrument and made two small marks with her ink stick, seven inches apart, and drew a line connecting them vertically along the paper. Cerys turned her measuring stick and at the top and bottom of that line made two more quick strokes, one and one-half inch long. She closed off the shape of the band with one more carefully ruled edge, dragging her ink stick slowly from end to end again and connecting the previous two points.
She was left with a neat and narrow rectangle, courtesy of the measurements provided by Mistress Toppe. One-quarter inch in from the inch and a half edges on both ends of the stencil she made two small dots; a reference for where the laces would go. With everything for the first piece traced out, Cerys slowly and carefully cut the lines of the template with her blade, then began anew with the next stencil.
Toppe's Traipsing
To start the project Cerys had a simple selection of supplies spread out in front of her. A measuring tool, an ink stick, several pieces of thick parchment, and a sharp cutting blade. This step was the simplest, and as long as her measurements came out correctly, shouldn't take more than a bell.
On one piece of parchment she laid down her measuring instrument and made two small marks with her ink stick, seven inches apart, and drew a line connecting them vertically along the paper. Cerys turned her measuring stick and at the top and bottom of that line made two more quick strokes, one and one-half inch long. She closed off the shape of the band with one more carefully ruled edge, dragging her ink stick slowly from end to end again and connecting the previous two points.
She was left with a neat and narrow rectangle, courtesy of the measurements provided by Mistress Toppe. One-quarter inch in from the inch and a half edges on both ends of the stencil she made two small dots; a reference for where the laces would go. With everything for the first piece traced out, Cerys slowly and carefully cut the lines of the template with her blade, then began anew with the next stencil.