Some time ago, one of Twirly Girl’s Cowgirl friends gave her a feather. In looking through an out of print Felicity craft book, she found directions for making a quill pen and berry ink. Larry helped her trim her feather into a pen, and I found some red raspberries on sale for her ink.
She kept at it, but she found that dipping her pen in ink made writing much more tedious than using a pencil or a modern gel pen. 
