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✨Meaghan✨
@midnight-magpie.bsky.social
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Just a corvid-loving creature who is obsessed with creating ✨treasures✨

Loves the idea of people-ing but struggles to do so 🤷😅

Absolutely will talk your ear off if you let
me 😂

She/Her

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Here is a sneak peak of my newest project! I recently discovered a new technique for tapestry crochet projects that result in a crisp detailed pixal art image using the bobble stitch. It took so many tries before I finally figured out what I was doing 😂
#crafting #crochet #tapestrycrochet #diy
Close up picture of my current crochet project. Blue and white bumps line up really well with the bobble stitch.
August 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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My first completed tapestry crochet project! My sibling loves Garfield, so I made them a bag with their fav Garfield image for their birthday 😊🎂🧶✨ #crochet #tapestrycrochet #garfield #diybag #handmade #stitchfiddle #graphgan #diy #crafting #fiberart #textileart #autism #orangecatbehaviour
A crochet square displaying a panel from the comic Garfield. Here, Garfield the cat has stolen John's (his owner) smoking pipe. A speech bubble appears on the upper left side of the image. It says "Garfield!!" Background is pink. Floor is green. Pipe is purple. There is smoke coming out from the pipe. There is a navy border around the outside of the square, followed by a white border, then an orange border, and finally back to navy. Finished catcher bag with the liner How the bag would look when someone wears it.
July 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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It's been a while since I last posted anything. Hope everyone is doing well! I wanted to share my newest art piece, inspired by a video on Instagram. I also wanted to announce that I now have an account on Ravelry and I will be selling this piece as a digital #tapestrycrochet pattern! #digitalart
A happy ginger and white tabby kitten enjoying the sunshine up in the elbow of an apple tree. Red apples hang from the branches in the background. The yellow sun sits among a blue sky in the top left corner of the frame. Artist's signature can be found in the top left corner.
July 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I stayed up late night to watch the lunar eclipse! My phone was struggling for a bit to properly capture everything. The sky was beautiful ❤️🌘🩸✨

#lunareclipse #bloodmoon #nightsky #bc #canada #naturephotograpgy #atronomicalevents #celestialbodies
The moon is beginning to be covered up by the earth's shadow. The moon is about halfway convered by the earth's shadow. Almost at totality! The moon is mostly covered by the earth's shadow and the moon is now becoming red. Totality! The moon is covered by the earth's shadow and now appears as a blood moon.
March 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Part 6 of my wool processing journey! I finally got around to #spinning my wool last night. This amount is about 2 rolags worth. With 25 altogether, I will get a good bit of yarn out of this 😁 Still practicing the consistency in the drafting thickness but I'm starting to get the hang of it. #wool
A strand of wool that has been spun to hold all the fibers together. The thickness throughout the strand is varied because I'm still practicing how to maintain a consistent draft. A closeup of my drop spindle with all the wool that I have spun so far! The will is wound around the shaft is the spindle. A full view of my drop spindle with all the wool that I've spun so far 😁
March 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Part 5 of my wool processing journey! I got some time yesterday to card a portion of the wool that I finished picking through the day before. The carding really gets all those extra done bits out 😁 I got 15 rolags done, and I plan to finish creating the rest of the wool today. #wool #diy #textiles
Freshly carded wool that had been peeled off of the brush. All of the fibers are intertwoven after being brushed. This will produce warm and fluffy yarn. A rolled up strip of wool called a rolag. It's soft and bouncy. This is the side view. A rolag from the top view. 15 rolags stored together in a black plastic dish pan.
March 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Ok so I just spent 5 solid minutes cry-laughing at this ridiculous face 🤣👏👏

#comedy #funnycats #lolcats #expressive #cartoonexpressions #angryface #grrrr
March 3, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Part 4 of my wool processing journey! I took 1 of 3 trays of wool and picked the smaller pieces of debris out while also breaking the clumps down into fibers. The 1st pic is what the clump looks like before picking, the 2nd one is after. The process took about 50 min to complete a tray.
#wool #sheep
Clumps of wool before picking all the debris out. A chunk of wool after picking all the debris out. It has a fluffier texture, like pillow batting. A large mesh bag that contains a whole baking trays worth of wool that had been broken down into a smoother and more workable state. A large foil lasagne pan containing all the plant matter and dust that was distributed throughout the wool before processing it. Some of the wool fibers are there too, but they could not be separated from the debris, so it had to be sacrificed.
February 28, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Part 3 of my #wool processing journey! First pic is a closeup of the wool after washing, rinsing, and now drying. 2nd pic is a side by side comparison of the wool from the presoaked batch vs the rest of the wool. 3rd and 4th pics show the raw wool placed in between the brushes to prime the teeth.
February 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Part 2 of my wool processing journey! The first pic is the wool after the 2nd scouring. The next pic is after 2 rinses (30 minutes each). And final pic is all the wool layed out to dry.
#wool #sheep #woolprocessing #fiberart #textileart #traditionalskills #ancientknowledge #cottagecore
February 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Part 1 of my wool processing journey! The first 4 images are showing off the raw wool that I started with. Next is the presoaked wool that I left overnight. Then I set aside some of the presoaked wool to dry so I could prime my brushes later (last image). The 3rd pic is the wool being washed. #wool
A large black bucket filled with unprocessed white wool. A large white bucket filled with cool water. The raw wool is placed in a mesh bag before being submerged into the water and left to soak overnight to help break up dirt. A small white bucket filled with hot soapy water. Raw wool inside a mesh bag is placed in the water for 30 minutes to lift the lanolin, dirt, and vegetable matter from the wool. The wool I have was very dirty, so I had to complete 3 washes to finally see a colour difference. Raw wool that was set aside to prime the hand carding brushes. This wool was presoaked overnight and then left to dry on a baking rack.
February 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Just finished the alternate Stained Glass Granny Square! I think the dusty purple was a good choice 😊🧶✨

Video Tutorial by Creggy's Crochet youtu.be/NJyo1A36uiM?...

#crafting #crochet #grannysquare #stainedglassgrannysquare #diy #textileart #fiberart #yarn
February 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Another African Flower Granny Square in a different colour way! I'm really enjoying the earthy orange and dark teal together 😍🧶✨

Video Tutorial by Creggy's Crochet youtu.be/O8aWuM9X68A?...

#crafting #crochet #grannysquare #africanflowergrannysquare #yarn #fiberart #textileart #diy
A crochet granny square featuring an 8 petal flower. The center is a light blue. The next row are clusters of orange. The petals are dark teal. The outlining stiches are orange. And the outer border is a gradient of light blue then a light yellow.
February 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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I completed a new granny square pattern! This one is the African Flower Granny Square by Creggy's Crochet. I ran out of bright green yarn so I had to finish it off with a darker teal yarn. It looks pretty good 😁🧶✨🏵️

Video Tutorial youtu.be/O8aWuM9X68A?...

#crafting #crochet #grannysquare #diy #yarn
February 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Here are some photos of the raw fleece that I have aquired! I'm so excited to start processing it 😁🐑🧶✨

#sheep #wool #fleece #rawfiber #fiberart #textileart #traditionalskills #spinning #yarn #ancientknowledge #cottagecore #cottageindustry #anticapitalist #livestock
A garbage bag filled with raw, unprocessed fleece from 2 different sheep. There is white fleece on the left and a dark chocolate brown fleece on the right. Bits of straw are scattered at the top of the brown fleece that will have to picked out later. A close up of the white fleece. There are some brown spots on some of the tips that might wash out later in the process. A close up of the brown fleece. There are more pieces of straw that have to be picked out later.
February 19, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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New batch of stich markers using large safety pins! This was pretty fun to make 😊🧶✨

#diy #crafting #knitting #crochet #stichmarkers #cute #punk #dollarstoreprojects #lowbudget #beads
4 Stitch markers made from large safety pins with various beads strung on. Lender back earrings are used to secure the stitch marker to a knitting or crochet project.
February 18, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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I've been busy with work recently, so I haven't been able to post as much as I want, but I would like to show off this fun pattern from Creggy's Crochet 😊 Diamond Granny Square ♦️🧶✨

Tutorial youtu.be/VVFMTHMg_v8?...

#crafting #crochet #grannysquare #diamondgrannysquare #diy #fiberart #textileart
February 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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So the flu has halted my plans to go get wool today 🥲🤧 But I have these nice wooden yarn gague cards to show off

#yarn #spinning #crafting #fiberart #textiles
Top left: wooden card that has been laser printed. Long channels have been burned into the wood to create spaces for various yarn types to be measured to determine thickness (example #4 worsted weight or #6 Chunky). Top right: wooden card that has been laser printed. Long channels have been burned into the the wood to create a space to place yarn into it to gague how many wraps per inch. Bottom: Larger wooden card that has been laser printed. The top edge has a ruler in centimeters and the right side has a ruler in inches. Below the top ruler, are holes of various sizes to gague needle size. Next to that on the left, is an L shaped hole that is used as a swatch gague. On the far left, more channels are placed to measure the thickness of the yarn.
February 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Here is the dark version of the Stained Glass Granny Square v1! This one is so striking and I think it might be one of my favourite granny squares so far 😊🧶✨

Video Tutorial by Creggy's Crochet
youtu.be/RXaNLxS8YtE?...

#crafting #crochet #grannysquare #stainedglassgrannysquare #diy #textileart
A stained glass granny square using crochet. The stiches making up the window panes are made from a colour gradient of yellow to light green and finally a light blue. The outer border and the lines separating the window panels is a dark navy blue.
February 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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So excited!! My hand carding brushes from YarnCanada.ca are here 😁 These are the small brushes (108 point). I was pleasantly surprised by how much bigger they are in person. I just have to assemble the pieces and find some #wool to condition the brushes for the first time ❤️🧶✨
#fiberart #spinning
The pieces of a set of hand carding brushes for processing wool and other similar fibers. There are 2 heads with many small metal teeth. Beside them are 2 wooden handles that will be attached to the heads of the brushes. Below is a plastic bag which contains 2 small screws that are fed into the pre-drilled holes on the handles of the brush. These screws will hold the handle and the head together to form a complete brush.
February 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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The drop spindle is complete! I decided to make a top whorl spindle first, but I will be making a supported spindle as my next project 😁✨🧶

#spinning #spindle #topwhorlspindle #dropspindle #diy #crafting #fiberart #traditionalskills #oldfashionedhobbies #ancientknowledge #selfsustaining #indipenant
Top view of my first drop spindle. The whorl at the top is a clay disk that is glued to a wooden dowel. I painted the disk with several Posca paint markers and drew a few different patterns. The center ring is purple, followed by a thin ring of teal, then a thick ring of metallic gold. There is another ring of teal as the backdrop for the ring of purple flowers. Next, a ring made of alternating dots of metallic gold and teal with purple centers. A burgundy ring finishes the top of the whorl. Finally, the section that makes the outer edge of the whorl is painted in metallic gold. The wooden dowel has a gold cup hook that had been screwed into the top to catch the fibers during the spinning process. Full view of the drop spindle. A wooden dowel makes the shaft, where the spun fibers will sit. The dowel is glued inside of the whorl, which is made of air dry clay. A gold cup hook is screwed into the top of the dowel to catch the fibers during the spinning process and keep some tension.
February 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Meet my little plant buddy. When I originally bought it, the energy it was giving off was "I'm kinda traumatized but I'm working through that and growing into a healthier version of myself" and I was like "hell yeah, I'm taking you home!" I added the pink flowers and the gold paint to jush it up ❤️✨
A statue of a cartoon style person is sitting while hugging its knees. Green leaves are sprouting out from the head of the statue. Gold paint representing cracks run all over the head and body of the statue. A white statue with gold cracks sits while hugging its knees. Green leaves and pink flowers sprout from the top of the head of the statue.
February 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Here is a closeup of the back of this specific granny square. Pardon the loose ends, I haven't woven them in yet 😅
February 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Created my first ever batch of stich markers! More coming soon 😁

#stichmarkers #diy #crafting #crochet #knitting #charms #queercrafting #canadiancrafting
February 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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The beginnings of my first ever diy drop spindle! I just have to wait 24 hours for the air clay to fully dry 😊✨

Video Tutorial by JillianEve youtu.be/p4UNC13R4K4?...

#crafting #diy #oldfashionedhobbies #ancientknowledge #spinning #dropspindle #spindle #cottagecore #historicalskills
A light coloured, wooden dowel with a small, gold cup hook screwed into the end of the dowel forms the shaft of the drop spindle. The terracotta clay disk forms the whole of the drop spindle. In the whorl, there is a notch carved out to hold the thread or yarn in place as the spindle spins. Both pieces are resting on a sheet of aluminum foil while the clay dries.
February 6, 2025 at 6:50 AM