The next project begins! To tile the entry, I am creating a half-size mockup in order to decide on a pattern.
Cutting blanks:
Preliminary layout on rosin paper, scored with a 1″ grid. The “tiles” are scrap hardboard cut to scale of actual tile sizes. The beauty of this method is that we get to arrange and rearrange and visualize with a great deal of certainty and a minimum of guesswork:
When a final design is settled on, I can make an accurate supply list from the mockup:


