A Girl's Gotta Accessorize

Avacyn waved off the attempt that Irilyth made at insisting that she didn't need to use her nice supplies on her. "It's just a couple of rings! It's no big deal, I promise." The rings weren't exactly the easiest thing to get right, but she didn't mention that to Irilyth since the handmaiden was already so wary of accepting gifts as it was. Avacyn didn't have a particular purpose for them anyway and she knew Irilyth would make more use of them than she would. She grinned and gave a small, shy flick of her ears at the praise she received, turning her dark gaze toward the materials in front of them so she could get to work. "Thank you. I just really making things." Doing crafts and projects was how she escaped from the pressures of all of the other parts of her life and how she had fun so it was nice to get to share some of that with someone else.

While Irilyth continued to work on the body of the bag, Avacyn pulled the pieces of leather closer and began to measure out a length of it that would be long enough for a strap, glancing back and forth to Irilyth to make sure it was long enough and guessing what would be a comfortable length. After she had carefully cut a straight line though the leather to form one long piece, she picked it up and briefly slipped it around Irilyth just to make sure, giving the smaller woman a smile before she laid it down on the table. She then began to place the leaf shaped stamp on the surface of the leather and gave it a few good taps with her hammer so that when she lifted the step away it left an imprint of the design behind. She made clusters of leaves going down the length of the strap, giving it a motif reminiscent of the plants that Irilyth would be carrying inside the bag when it was done.

By the time she was done with that Irilyth was finishing up the body of the satchel, attaching a flap over the top. "This looks great!" she praised her long time nanny, grinning as she leaned into Irilyth's shoulder affectionately. "See? I knew you could do it." She then went to work helping Irilyth with the last finishing touches. She looped a bit of the strap around one of the silver metal rings she had brought and then took the needle that Irilyth had been using, sewing the strap to itself so that it formed a loop around the ring. She did the same to the other side before cutting out two smaller pieces of leather the same width of the strap, sewing one end of the piece to either top corner of the bag and then giving it the same treatment as she looped the pieces through the ring, attaching the strap to the bag securely.

With that the bag they had been working on was done and when she picked it up by the strap it had a bit of a sway to it from where the bag was hanging off of the rings. That made it far easier for Avacyn to slip it around Irilyth to make sure the fit was good and for the bag to lay flat against Irilyth's shoulder once it was around her neck. "What do you think? Happy with it?" she asked, her tail wagging gently behind her.

"Avacyn Mendacium"