fountain pen ink
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Scribo ink – Notturno Viola
I think the time has come to work my way through some ink and I’m going to start with this massive bottle of deep, dark purple from Scribo. When I started to think about an ink to pair with the Onoto, this was high on the agenda. I originally popped in a cartridge of Herbin’s Continue reading
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Choosing ink
I’ve been leaning heavily into the blue inks for a while and that has been good. I particularly enjoyed using Waterman Inspired Blue in my Lamy LX Rose Gold with its extra-fine nib. More specifically, I enjoyed using it with my creative writing notebook which is a Rhodiarama A5 lined notebook. The creamy paper and Continue reading
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A flock of fine nibs
October is settling in well, though it still seems as if autumn is only just peeking over the horizon. With temperatures regularly sitting above 20℃ until the past couple of days, I couldn’t bring myself to move into autumnal oranges and reds, so I ended up turning to a selection of blue inks to start Continue reading
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She used Red Velvet…
Let us be clear, this is not an ink review. Think of it more as an homage to Montblanc’s William Shakespeare Velvet Red ink. It’s the colour I’ve been using every day since starting my new journal, including the obligatory quote on the very first page. (Turns out I am having a bit of a Continue reading
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July: Quite Cross
I have decided to be Quite Cross this July, but don’t worry. It just means I’m mainly going to be using my Cross fountain pens. I could have treated myself to a new pen for this month, but nothing has really caught my imagination, so instead I decided on a frivolous ink purchase – the Continue reading
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Bring on the inks
This was the lineup at the weekend when I sat down to choose my pens and inks for March. It is almost all the inks I own, the absences are one pack of cartridges which are living at work and one bottle which is hiding away until April. The initial whittling-down was pretty easy because Continue reading
Pam Alison Knits 