Question
Hello,
OK, I'm using terms I am not fully understanding of....Apparently, I have a varagated Ivy house plant in a pot. This is a tough sucker, as I have had it for upwards of 15 years.
I'd like to propagate (?) this plant into other plants. But, I know diddly about cuttings, and how to do this, without murdering my beloved donor plant.
PLEASE help, so I can avoid counseling, and other professional services for mental health...
nerol.

Answer
If in fact it is the Ivy plant that you are talking about, then the project should be easy, maybe even fun. I am assuming that after 15 years of tough care, you have a plant that is vining. Set the plant on a table or bench. This is where you start.
Find as many small two or four inch pots, as you want new plants. Two four five. . .. Buy some very good potting soil. I like the kind with the fertilizer already in it. Fill the small pots with soil to the top, press down gently, and fill some more. Get the soil completely wet.

Now,look for a leaf on the vine, three or four leaves up from the tip of the vine.
Just ABOVE the leaf, and on the underside of the vine, take a sharp knife, or razor blade, and make a very small slit, no deeper then a shallow scrape of the outer skin. (Be careful not to damage the leaf area.) Place this slit in the wet soil of the small pot, right in the middle. Take a bent hair pin or bent paperclip, and press the slit down in the soil and pin it to the soil. Press the soil firmly around it. When you have "planted" all of your pots, leave them alone. Keep them moist, but not too wet. After a month, or so see if they have rooted into the soil. If they have, simply cut the vine of the mother plant away from the new plant and the main vine back to the next leaf on the main vine, and you have just created new life.  It is that easy.
You see the mother plant will feed the baby until it is able to feed itself. The leaf node is where the root will grow as long as it has soil, light,and moisture. You can start your own nursery from the leaves on your mother plant, by this simple method. It is good therapy, they say.