just curious - nations represented here...

Excellent! :) Dunno what part of Canada you're in but FPN also has a forum for the Ottawa Pen club. I realize Canada is a big place. :)

i had neglected to fix my sig from weeks ago when our group changed servers.... so..

KCat

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start throwing around the hints... :)

seriously do check into the groups - you'll be amazed with the number of choices out there.

on second thought - it may be a bit overwhelming. But we have recently had good threads on inexpensive starter pens, small pens, etc. also lots of reviews on everything from $10 pens to pens so far beyond my budget I won't even tell you the prices.

haven't had that problem yet. but i've had other inky mishaps. OTOH, have also cleaned ballpoint goo out of my husband's work shirts so...

I have friends that only use their FPs for writing letters and cards. One or two pens with a couple of different inks can be just as enjoyable (sometimes probably more so) as accumulating dozens and not knowing what to do with them all.

But it depends on the population of the city! If there are a ton of needlework afficionados in an area, then it is likely that a needlework specialty store or two will pop up and thrive. If there's a golf store but no needlework store, all that means is that there are more golfers in the area or selling golf supplies is more lucrative than selling needlework supplies. There's no reason to believe that needleworkers are evenly distributed throughout the US.

Best wishes, Ericka

It`s a little Native American mythological character in the form of a hunch-backed flute player. Sometimes known as a "Trickster", and often as a Fertility symbol, as he would go around the villages and be offered the women of the village to get new blood into the trible. Some think the "hunched back" is, in reality, a back-pack. There are plenty of websites about him - just type in Kokopelli into Google. You`ll find him carved on rocks and in caves all over the SouthWest of America, and I believe he shows up in many other places too.

Pat P

I appreciate that. Can't say I abide by the practice, but appreciate being informed. Of course, I don't know the history WRT these conflicts but that's okay. I'm fine being in the dark on that issue. Rather draw my own conclusions over time.

I had a purple Waterman Carene with purple ink in it that I used for everything. I've somehow managed to misplace it and I'm very very sad about that. I really like the Carene.

I learned to use a fountain pen in highschool in Belgium and have had at least one around ever since. I've got a Cross around here somewhere that I should dig out and clean up now that the Carene has gone missing. It's not as nice, but much nicer than a ballpoint.

Elizabeth

You mean like the RC priests in Malta ?

Thanks, Erika, that`s great!

Pat P

Aren't they the coolest!!?? Years and years and years ago my uncle bought some home from England, and I thought they were just too too toooooooo ... hmm ... neato is all I can think of (LOL!) So now I try to get some for holidays. My kids think I'm bonkers, but I LIKE IT!!

"KCat" wrote

Saskatchewan, a mere few thousand miles from Ottawa (I did live there once). And unfortunately, it is increasingly hard to find ink, even in cartridges, never mind pens, here. Dawne, pining for her Waterman Violette ink

Which - the ones who leave a broom outside the door, or the ones abusing the kids?

Pat P

I was thinking of the ones who came to create 'a child from god' if the wife was too long conceiving. As I heard it in Malta, if the husband of one came home and saw the priests hat on the peg inside the door, he closed the door quietly and came back later.

KCat writes (re pen shops and needlework shops in cities like NYC):

Pens sell for far more money than needlework supplies! And they take up less room. You will find several yarn stores in NYC - it's easy to spend lots of money on yarn. There are several needlepoint stores also - needlepoint canvases command high prices as do the wools. It's true that linens, silks, etc. can be pricy at cross stitch stores - but I just don't think there's the profit margin there which is why the NYC rents are too high to make a go of it.

Alison who actually has one fountain pen now, a Retractable one.

Which seems like a good practice. Whoever this jLb person is would do well to emulate it rather than make judgements about people *it* doesn't know based solely on one or two posts and their ISP.

Caryn

Are you looking for patterns with Kokopelli? If so, check out Pitter Patterns. Janie has several Kokopelli designs, I've already stitched one and own a second. I know there are others as well, I just don't know them off the top of my head.

some of 'em. I've spent more on needlework supplies in the last two months than I have on pens this year. shhhh... don't tell hubby. :)

definitely - but with pens come paper, organizers, inks (which take up precious shelf space so I'm told by pen store proprietors) and many other lovely addictive items one must have if one has pens. One need only look at my "craft" room and see that my pen stuff actually fills about 1.5X the amount of space my cross stitch stuff takes up. And i've been into the x-stitch for much longer. But I'm a paper addict as well.

well, it's good to know it's not lacking in these things. Neither are easy to find in Houston.

Namiki Vanishing Point, I'd guess. One of the most elegant, intelligently designed pens ever made. Unless you spent the big bucks on an Etruria. Or the little bucks on a Stypen (irritating little pen for me but some people like it. Shouldn't have to cap a retractable pen!)

:)

I have two VPs (aka - Pilot Capless) and they are the only FP other than Pelikan pens that I would have multiple copies of if I could. (I guess 2 is multiple. :P)

Yes, I have two of the Namiki Vanishing Point pens. Love em!

Jaenne

John told me it was a broom left outside the door! He lived in Malta for a while - his younger brother was born there. Don`t think he was a "child from God" though - but he did look very much like Roger Moore!

Pat P