Originally Posted by hermygirl

She smiled as she saw Ella's butterfly. "Very pretty," Hermy said with a nod. "Are you going to print it as an outline, or a block of colour to add detail to?"

"There's some very good looking designs coming on," Hermy said as she reached the front of the class once more. "So I'm going on introduce the next step. Don't worry if you're not done quite yet - there's no need to rush." She'd far rather slightly slow, good quality work so they could all take home a cushion to be proud of. "We need to transfer your design from the parchment and onto what you'll be using for a printing block."

She moved to a box of translucent type paper on the side desk. "This is transfer paper," she said holding it up for everyone to see. "You can lay it over your parchment and see your design through it." She held it over her own leaf sketch, so they could see. "Carefully draw round the edges of your design in pencil, making sure that the only lines you copy are those you want to have as part of your printing block." Hermy demonstrated this, and then held the parchment up in the air so they could see her single, clear line.

"So, now we need something to transfer it to. First to third years, you'll be using a potato. Fourth years and above, you'll be using the grey lino tiles in the box over there," she pointed to it, so they couldn't somehow get it confused with the big box of white tiles. "You'll see why you've got different materials a bit later - I'm not being mean, honest!" She'd had to think long and hard about that decision, but she was sure it'd be safest in the long run. And she had to think about the student's safety first and foremost. "I'm going to demonstrate using the potato, as it's a bit easier to see what's happening. The first few steps won't apply to the lino, but older ones, please pay attention in case any of your classmates need help."

"First, check your design will fit on the potato or lino. If it doesn't you may need to tweak it a little bit, or shrink it so it can fit." She probably should have mentioned the size restriction a bit more before they'd started drawing. Oops. "Then, carefully cut the potato in half, so you've got a flat surface. There's knives on the side, or you can use diffindo if you'd rather."

SPOILER!!: Steps 1+2: Check size, Cut the potato

"Now pat the potato dry with a tissue. If you forget to do this, then the transfer will just wipe off with the starchy water. Not good.

SPOILER!!: Step 3: Pat the potato dry.

"Then put the transfer paper on the potato pencil side down. This flips the design so it'll come out the right way when you print it. To transfer the image, move your wand across the surface and say 'transfero'." She did this, and the pencil that had been on the paper now appeared on the potato.

"You can practice on a spare piece of parchment first if you like."

ooc: As you can see from the photos, I've actually done a demo myself (a very basic one, admittedly - Hermy's is done with much more flair!). If you'd like to do the same, then you're more than welcome to! It doesn't have to be made from a potato or lino - use anything suitable from around the house. Just whatever you use, be careful if it involves anything sharp.

Originally Posted by hermygirl

A marine theme - what a great idea! "That looks great," Hermy said with a smile. "Though it might be a bit of a pain to cut out. How about you make it a bit more graphic by thickening up the stripes, and only using a single colour?" She took a pencil and notepad from her pocket, and using the girl's original as a guide, sketched a rough outline of what she meant. "How about something along these lines?" The sketch she showed had taken the basic outline of Alyssa's and made it a little more bold and less fiddly.

"There's some very good looking designs coming on," Hermy said as she reached the front of the class once more. "So I'm going on introduce the next step. Don't worry if you're not done quite yet - there's no need to rush." She'd far rather slightly slow, good quality work so they could all take home a cushion to be proud of. "We need to transfer your design from the parchment and onto what you'll be using for a printing block."

She moved to a box of translucent type paper on the side desk. "This is transfer paper," she said holding it up for everyone to see. "You can lay it over your parchment and see your design through it." She held it over her own leaf sketch, so they could see. "Carefully draw round the edges of your design in pencil, making sure that the only lines you copy are those you want to have as part of your printing block." Hermy demonstrated this, and then held the parchment up in the air so they could see her single, clear line.

"So, now we need something to transfer it to. First to third years, you'll be using a potato. Fourth years and above, you'll be using the grey lino tiles in the box over there," she pointed to it, so they couldn't somehow get it confused with the big box of white tiles. "You'll see why you've got different materials a bit later - I'm not being mean, honest!" She'd had to think long and hard about that decision, but she was sure it'd be safest in the long run. And she had to think about the student's safety first and foremost. "I'm going to demonstrate using the potato, as it's a bit easier to see what's happening. The first few steps won't apply to the lino, but older ones, please pay attention in case any of your classmates need help."

"First, check your design will fit on the potato or lino. If it doesn't you may need to tweak it a little bit, or shrink it so it can fit." She probably should have mentioned the size restriction a bit more before they'd started drawing. Oops. "Then, carefully cut the potato in half, so you've got a flat surface. There's knives on the side, or you can use diffindo if you'd rather."



"Now pat the potato dry with a tissue. If you forget to do this, then the transfer will just wipe off with the starchy water. Not good.


"Then put the transfer paper on the potato pencil side down. This flips the design so it'll come out the right way when you print it. To transfer the image, move your wand across the surface and say 'transfero'." She did this, and the pencil that had been on the paper now appeared on the potato.

"You can practice on a spare piece of parchment first if you like."

ooc: As you can see from the photos, I've actually done a demo myself (a very basic one, admittedly - Hermy's is done with much more flair!). If you'd like to do the same, then you're more than welcome to! It doesn't have to be made from a potato or lino - use anything suitable from around the house. Just whatever you use, be careful if it involves anything sharp.

Originally Posted by hermygirl

Originally Posted by hermygirl

She moved to a box of translucent type paper on the side desk. "This is transfer paper," she said holding it up for everyone to see. "You can lay it over your parchment and see your design through it." She held it over her own leaf sketch, so they could see. "Carefully draw round the edges of your design in pencil, making sure that the only lines you copy are those you want to have as part of your printing block." Hermy demonstrated this, and then held the parchment up in the air so they could see her single, clear line.

"So, now we need something to transfer it to. First to third years, you'll be using a potato. Fourth years and above, you'll be using the grey lino tiles in the box over there," she pointed to it, so they couldn't somehow get it confused with the big box of white tiles. "You'll see why you've got different materials a bit later - I'm not being mean, honest!" She'd had to think long and hard about that decision, but she was sure it'd be safest in the long run. And she had to think about the student's safety first and foremost. "I'm going to demonstrate using the potato, as it's a bit easier to see what's happening. The first few steps won't apply to the lino, but older ones, please pay attention in case any of your classmates need help."

"First, check your design will fit on the potato or lino. If it doesn't you may need to tweak it a little bit, or shrink it so it can fit." She probably should have mentioned the size restriction a bit more before they'd started drawing. Oops. "Then, carefully cut the potato in half, so you've got a flat surface. There's knives on the side, or you can use diffindo if you'd rather."

SPOILER!!: Steps 1+2: Check size, Cut the potato

"Now pat the potato dry with a tissue. If you forget to do this, then the transfer will just wipe off with the starchy water. Not good.

SPOILER!!: Step 3: Pat the potato dry.

"Then put the transfer paper on the potato pencil side down. This flips the design so it'll come out the right way when you print it. To transfer the image, move your wand across the surface and say 'transfero'." She did this, and the pencil that had been on the paper now appeared on the potato.

"You can practice on a spare piece of parchment first if you like."

ooc: As you can see from the photos, I've actually done a demo myself (a very basic one, admittedly - Hermy's is done with much more flair!). If you'd like to do the same, then you're more than welcome to! It doesn't have to be made from a potato or lino - use anything suitable from around the house. Just whatever you use, be careful if it involves anything sharp.

Originally Posted by Ella

Ella spotted her friend Ian as she approached the fabric and smiled at him. It was actually pretty cool to see boys in this seminar, as she hadn't expected many to show up. She would have greeted her friend too but he was leaving the table when she arrived. The second year took it as a sign that he was busy thinking of what he might make and instead focused on her possible color choices. While feeling the various pieces of fabric, Ella noted that she quite liked the primary colors and thought they would really pop on a cushion. Ultimately, she decided that her color scheme would include some kind of Blue, red, green, and yellow.

Originally Posted by Princesspower

Sarah smiled. With the teacher's approval Sarah went on, her butterfly was perfect size. She first traced the outline of the butterfly on the transferring paper.Then "DIFFINDO" she cut the potato in half. Using a tissue she wiped off excess water and placed her transfer paper upside down on the potato. "tranfero" she said, and the pattern magically appeared on the potato.

Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

Moving from her seat to grab a modest sized potato, Kurumi returned to her spot and removed her wand from its turquoise holster but set it on the table for now. Lifting up her piece of parchment, Kurumi checked to make sure that her design fit and it did....but juuuuuuuuust barely. Nodding, Kurumi pointed her wand at her potato as her eyes narrowed slightly. Casting a silent Diffindo, Kurumi carefully pulled apart the two pieces and inspected them for a moment to make sure that the surface of both of the slices was smooth by running her fingers over them.

Satisfied with this, Kurumi grabbed a tissue and began to pad the two slices down softly with it when Miss...erm...Misses? Erm... Madam Johanson approached her station.


Looking up from her drawing, Kurumi blinked in surprise for a brief moment. "Actually...I hadn't thought about just using one petal at a time," she replied with a shy nod. That actually didn't sound like too bad of an idea now that she got to thinking about it. "Since we are cutting the potato in half, would it be alright if I did both? So that I had a stamp for the entire blossom and one for just the petal?" That would make the process a little easier and her blossom more accurate, but if that wasn't possible she would just go for the individual petal.

Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow

Ella beamed as the instructor told her that her sketch was beautiful. "Thanks!" She then thought about what was asked. Hmm...did she want to cut it as an outline? "I think I'm gonna go with the block of color." She decided with a shrug. Yeah. That would look nice, wouldn't it?

Originally Posted by Meizzner

Nigel knew he could not draw and was not that creative. SO it took him a while to come up with an idea. He decided that since he likes Batman and since his symbol was easy to draw. It made perfect sense to draw his as perfect as he could.

He went up and got some black stencils and got to work. It only took him a couple minutes to make it perfect. He looked back down and was happy with his batman symbol.

Once he finished it, it was time to move on to the potatoes. Now that he heard the next set of instructions. Nigel knew what they were doing with them and it did not sound that hard.

Once he check the size of the potato he picked and made it perfect. He cut the potato just like the instructor did. Next Nigel patted the potato dry with a tissue so it will not just wipe off with water.

Next Nigel put the transfer paper on the potato pencil side down. So it'll come out just the way Nigel wanted. Next, Nigel moved his wand across the surface and said '"Transfero". He then looked down and his awesome batman symbol was on his potato. He hoped he did it right.Nigel raised his hand and asked

"Miss Smythe, Did i do this right?"

Originally Posted by lazykitty

Emmanuelle quickly finished drawing her parchment (having gone with a slightly random pattern of triangles) and moved on to the next step. Transfering her design onto the transfer paper. It took her a couple of tries, considering it was a little harder to see through the paper. But she finally had it. She decided to practice the transfer spell a couple of times on parchment scraps before actually attempting to use it on the lino tile. After all, it was probably expensive and, well, she just didn't want to waste it.

Placing her traced design on the scrap parchment, Em moved her wand over the paper as demonstrated and cast. "Transfero." Pulling back the transfer paper, she discovered that her design was smudged in places. Sigh. So, she traced the design again on a new sheet of transfer paper. Placing the new sheet on another sheet of scrap paper, she performed the spell again, this time pronouncing it a little more carefully. "Transfero." When she pulled back the paper this time, she found that the design had transferred perfectly. Yay!

Now that she had mastered the spell, Em walked to the bin and grabbed one of the grey lino tiles. It felt heavier in her hand than she was expecting. Hmm. She carried it back to where she was working and carefully set it down. After tracing her design for a third time onto another new sheet of transfer paper, she was finally ready to transfer her design to the tile. She placed her transfer paper pencil side down on the lino tile, then moved her wand over the surface and carefully said the spell. "Transfero." Pulling back the paper, she found that the design had transferred perfectly again. Yay! This part done, she waited patiently for the next step.

Originally Posted by Luna_Midnight

Nerida smiled another good choice, awesome. Making a cushion and than designing an outfit oh that was amazing, she had never done that before.
She was good at sketching should be no problem. But what to draw. Nothing coming to her mind she did the first thing she thought of and that was a moon. After sketching a crescent moon she flipped the paper so the moon was on its side. Suddenly a thought came to her and she decided to draw sun rays on the crescent moon but only coming from the bottom. She only drew three. Soon she realized that she had drawn something like her family symbol. She looked down at her sketch.

She stopped sketching and looked up at the Professor as she demonstrated what they would be doing. Ah drats she would have to use the potato, which probably was good she had never done this before. She took her drawing and put it on top of the potato to see if it fit. Almost, a little bit bigger and the drawing would have been to big. Taking her wand she pointed it at the potato and said "Diffindo," The Potato split in half. Taking a tissue she began to pat the potato dry. She than grabbed a transfer paper and placed it onto her parchment she had forgot to do the tracing earlier. She carefully traced her drawing onto the transfer paper. Once done she placed the transfer paper on top of the potato.

She took her wand and moved it over the surface and said "Transfero," Suddenly the drawing that was once on the paper was now onto the potato. Hmm that was pretty cool. She raised her hand and asked Mrs.Smythe, Miss Smythe, Have I done this right?

Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88

Alyssa still remained confused as to whether she should be attempting the transfer spell on her grey lino tile, like the younger students were doing with the potato, but she decided that until she was able to clarify it with Professor Smythe, that she would just practice performing the spell on a regular piece of parchment like she seen another Slytherin older student do.

Placing the transfer paper on which she had traced out the outline of her drawing on the parchment, with the pencil lines facing downwards, she moved her wand across the surface and while concentrating on the spell, said, "TRANSFERO". She then removed the transfer paper and peeked under it....to see that her drawing had indeed transferred over to the parchment below.

Taking another parchment, she did practiced the spell again, "TRANSFERO" and when she checked again, she saw that she had been successful in casting the spell again. Alyssa looked around for Mrs. Smythe because she really wanted to clarify with the Professor regarding her instructions.

Originally Posted by Edward Penguin

Ian smiled back at Ella. He was really glad now he'd decided to come to this seminar. He did however return to his work to figure out what he was going to do next.

Ian was quite pleased as she came to look at his design, but his face dropped as she said it wasn't quite what she was looking for. He responded. "I'm sorry, Ms. Smythe. I must have misunderstood. He quickly retrieved another parchment roll as he set back to the design. He set about drawing a pattern of blue and yellow octagons, similar to old style footballs he'd seen from America. He rather liked the design and watched as Ms. Smythe gave the demonstration of what she wanted done.

Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

Merlin Kurumi was out of her element and it was becoming more and more clear to her just how much it was effecting her thinking when she heard people address their guest professor. Erm, right...Smythe ... not what she had said earlier, which had actually already slipped the Gryffindor's mind to be completely honest.

If there were two things Kurumi was allergic to they would be flying and fashion. Yep.

So cue a rise in color when Madam SMYTHE came by her station...and pointed out the tiles, erm, lino. Oh, erm, right... Kurumi was clearly too flustered about not knowing anything that instructions had sort of slipped her mind...ish. That, and Kurumi really just liked potatoes boil em mash em stick em in a stew. At least that was what she was going to tell herself.

Boil em mash em stick em in a stew

"I think I'll do that," Kurumi nodded as she glanced at her potato. She should probably go get one of those tiles too. So, slowly and very self consciously Kurumi made her way out of her seat again and went to grab a tile when she was struck with an idea. Maybe she would make the petal print with the potatoes, for something a little softer and and more unfinished, and then the blossoms with the tile. Hmm...that didn't sound to bad actually.

Making her way back now, Kurumi set the tile to the side with her potato halves and set to drawing her design again. Well, just the petal shape so now she had two patterns to work with. Merlin, she was making this more complicated for herself somehow and it was just stamping.

.....oops?

Taking the parchment with the design on it and setting it face down against a spare one, Kurumi ran her wand over it as had been demonstrated. "Transfero." Nervously, Kurumi removed the top parchment and was pleased to see that her cherry blossom design was now on both of them. Yay!

With her petal only design on the transfer paper, Kurumi set it on top of her dried potato and moved her wand over it to cast the spell again while uttering another Transfero. Removing the paper, Kurumi breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her design on the potato. Taking the design of the full flower this time, Kurumi set it against the tile and took a more concentrated deep breath. No biggy, just like before.... Moving her wand over the tile slowly, Kurumi cast Transfero again and slooooooooooowly pealed the paper away. Oooooooooh thank Merlin it hadn't somehow melted. Now with a petal print on one half of her potato and a full cherry blossom print on her lino tile, Kurumi repeated the process one more time on the other potato to make a full cherry blossom print on it as well. Never knew which one would end up giving her the result she wanted.

Originally Posted by Princesspower

Sarah nodded - she never wasted. "Who needs a potato?" she asked the students around her. "We don't want it to go to waste... I am sure the Irish among us will agree" she said in the kind of voice an auctioneer uses, referring to the Irish Potato Famine in the 1800's.

To be cautious she marked the potato parts that she did not want that surrounded her butterfly.

Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow

Okay, so now that Ella was done tracing her butterfly and making sure the potato surface was ready, she could focus on transferring the image over. Carefully, she placed the transfer paper pencil side down, and made sure to flip it correctly. Then, holding out her wand towards potato, the second year moved it slowly across the surface. Deep breath and "Transfero!" Blink.Blink. That worked, yeah? At least Ells hoped so. And she slowly removed the transfer paper to check. Grin. IT DID WORK. Very cool.

Next Ella picked up her pencil and marked the parts of the potato that wouldn't be part of the print. She began to lightly shade all the bits around the outside of the butterfly, careful not to damage the image in any way. She decided to add the antennas as Ms. Smythe had suggested and just shaded around the area where she figured they would be. That way she could cut them out too. Once she was finished, the second year placed her pencil down and used the tissue from earlier to wipe it clean. She found her eyes wandering over to Ian's work space, wondering how he was doing. He seemed to be doing okay though, which was good.

Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19

Jory got the drawing equipment and sat thinking for a while about what he wanted his design to be. Finally, he came up with rocket like ne of those used to go in space. Except this one would be colourful instead of white. He set about drawing and when he was done he used red, blue,black and maroon.

This done, the badger moved on to the next set of instructions. He checked to see if his drawing would fit on the potato and to his delight, it did. Next, he grabbed the knife and got the potato in half so he got that flat side. With a tissue, Jory now carefully dried off the potato. Now, he put the transfer paper on the side instructed onto the potato. He moved his wand over the surface and said ''Transfero!''. He checked the potato and was now pleased to see his colourful rocket on it.

Now, the boy picked up his quill and began outlining the parts of the potato he didn't want. Finished, he waited for the next set of instructions.

Originally Posted by ortalismusicoh

Beaaaam!

Miss Smythe had said her design was great and that was something Nessie thought was worth smiling about. It was a sweet compliment, and smiling was healthy anyways.

Transferring? Why did they have to do that?

Hmm…Ness didn’t get it, but surely whatever this woman was saying had to be right. She did own a clothing shop now didn’t she? She had to know a thing or two about designing things. It looked a little hard though, this whole lino and potato thing. Meh...maybe it would be easy. You could never know until you tried.

For the first step she had to trace out the design onto some transfer paper. Pretty simple it appeared. She took a pencil and then began drawing her design onto the transparent. Once done, she removed the paper from the parchment and grinned as they looked almost the same. It would work.

The red head then got out from her seat and looked at both the potatoes and the linos. She knew she was old enough to use the tiles and all, but she wanted some practice before she did the real thing. Trying not to feel ashamed, Renesmee picked up one potato and one tile too. She then headed back to her working space and sat down.

Now to do the hard stuff. The Hufflepuff cut her potato in half and then placed her transfer paper right on to one half, making sure the pencil side was touching the potato. ‘Transfero’. Wasn’t too difficult to pronounce, but just to be sure, Ness went over the work a few times in her mind. Then she took her wand, aimed it at the paper and potato and not too loudly said. "Transfero."Nessie’s eyes widened as the design on her paper appeared now on her potato too.

See it wasn’t so hard after all. This was easy magic.

Originally Posted by hermygirl

Hermy returned to the front of the class, and clapped her hands together. "Now most of you have transferred you're design, I'm going to take you through the next stages. If you're not quite there yet, I'd like to ask you to put your wands and drawing implements down one moment so that I have your full attention." This next bit was the part of the lesson Hermy was most nervous about. She really didn't want any injuries in her class, however minor, just because someone wasn't listening.

"If we were doing this totally by hand, we'd use tools like this," Hermy said, holding up a set of lino cutting blades and a handle. "These are used to scoop out the excess material from around your design so that it won't get paint on it and won't print." She hoped everyone got that concept. "However today we're going to be using our wands. Whilst it is safer and quicker than these blades, I would still like you to be careful. The charm can be a little tricky to control - which is why I've only got the older years using the lino. The potatoes are softer to work with, and this means the charm is easier to control." She paused to look around the class.

"Essentially we're going to make our wand into the equivalent of that tool, and take out some of the hard graft. The incantation is 'terfodere' and then either 'potato' or 'lino' according to whichever you are using. When you're done you say 'finite'." Hermy picked up the spare half of her demonstration potato. "The reason for adding the last bit is to limit what you can scoop out - the spell can be used to scoop out anything you like, and as you can imagine, this could be pretty risky if your wand were to slip at all."

Taking her wand in her left hand, Hermy held up the potato. "The trick is to get the pressure right, so you only scoop out the desired amount. I find it easiest to build up in layers - put on too much pressure, and the spell will tend to get caught up and then slip suddenly in the wrong direction, ruining your design. I'd also suggest holding your wand more like a quill, as you'll find it easier to follow the shape of your design." She changed the grip on her wand, moving her hand slightly closer to its tip, and holding it between her thumb and first finger as if it was a wand. "Terfodere potato!" she cast. "Now, see how it scoops out where I'm pointing my wand?" She moved her wand so they could see the potato hollowing out, before saying "Finite."

"We'll get to doing it on your printing blocks shortly and how to get the best result, but first I'd like you to practice the incantation, and get a feel for how you'd like to hold your wand as you trace round your design. Remember, Ter-fo-dair-reh." She put the potato back on the desk. "If you've got any questions at this stage, please ask now."

ooc: Don't do anything with wand and incantation together yet - just one at a time. I'll be moving on to that in 2-3hours time.

Originally Posted by hermygirl

Hmm? Hermy wandered over the to voice. "Lovely job," Hermy said with a smile, even though she was clueless as to what it what of. "Good work."

Things were proceeding well. "Those of you who have already transferred your designs, use your pencil or quill to carefully mark the bits of the potato or lino you don't want to keep as part of your print. Just a loose scribble in any scrap bit will do, like this." And with that, she held up her own potato with the bits outside the leaf marked. "This is just to ensure you don't cut the wrong bits out by mistake when we move on in a minute."

Originally Posted by hermygirl

Hermy returned to the front of the class, and clapped her hands together. "Now most of you have transferred you're design, I'm going to take you through the next stages. If you're not quite there yet, I'd like to ask you to put your wands and drawing implements down one moment so that I have your full attention." This next bit was the part of the lesson Hermy was most nervous about. She really didn't want any injuries in her class, however minor, just because someone wasn't listening.

"If we were doing this totally by hand, we'd use tools like this," Hermy said, holding up a set of lino cutting blades and a handle. "These are used to scoop out the excess material from around your design so that it won't get paint on it and won't print." She hoped everyone got that concept. "However today we're going to be using our wands. Whilst it is safer and quicker than these blades, I would still like you to be careful. The charm can be a little tricky to control - which is why I've only got the older years using the lino. The potatoes are softer to work with, and this means the charm is easier to control." She paused to look around the class.

"Essentially we're going to make our wand into the equivalent of that tool, and take out some of the hard graft. The incantation is 'terfodere' and then either 'potato' or 'lino' according to whichever you are using. When you're done you say 'finite'." Hermy picked up the spare half of her demonstration potato. "The reason for adding the last bit is to limit what you can scoop out - the spell can be used to scoop out anything you like, and as you can imagine, this could be pretty risky if your wand were to slip at all."

Taking her wand in her left hand, Hermy held up the potato. "The trick is to get the pressure right, so you only scoop out the desired amount. I find it easiest to build up in layers - put on too much pressure, and the spell will tend to get caught up and then slip suddenly in the wrong direction, ruining your design. I'd also suggest holding your wand more like a quill, as you'll find it easier to follow the shape of your design." She changed the grip on her wand, moving her hand slightly closer to its tip, and holding it between her thumb and first finger as if it was a wand. "Terfodere potato!" she cast. "Now, see how it scoops out where I'm pointing my wand?" She moved her wand so they could see the potato hollowing out, before saying "Finite."

"We'll get to doing it on your printing blocks shortly and how to get the best result, but first I'd like you to practice the incantation, and get a feel for how you'd like to hold your wand as you trace round your design. Remember, Ter-fo-dair-reh." She put the potato back on the desk. "If you've got any questions at this stage, please ask now."


ooc: Don't do anything with wand and incantation together yet - just one at a time. I'll be moving on to that in 2-3hours time.