Melanie Richards
@melanierichards.bsky.social
Product leader @Webflow. My personal mission is to help people make inspiring, impactful, and inclusive things on the web. She/her 👩🦰 https://melanie-richards.com 🐘 https://front-end.social/@melanie
Finally followed through on building a directory for people who blog about the things they make. If that's you, please do submit a link! makerswhoblog.com/
Makers Who Blog
Discover blogs by makers across disciplines: artists, journalers, knitters, quilters, sewists, sketchers, weavers, and more creative communities.
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Philly accent activated: it's a "crown" "wooder" bottle! 🤪
New on the making blog: a smattering of #sketchbook pages 👩🎨 making.melanie-richards.com/s...
Sketchbook Dump 001 ☼
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Back on the Learning Log train (I skipped May) melanie-richards.com/blog/lea...
Learning Log, June 2026
Family and work travel, and knocking out some crafty goals
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Forget Disney songs or nursery rhymes, what I have stuck in my head is the ditty from my daughter's pretend car keys 🫠
✍️ New on the making blog: a mid-year check-in on my #drawing #knitting #sewing #weaving goals making.melanie-richards.com/2...
Mid-2026 goals check-in
Making good progress on my crafting goals for this year
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Home alone and the ghost of a Victorian child that lives in my daughter's room is doing way too much stomping around* rn!! 👻 * Old house with random spooky settling noises
Painted/drew the same abandoned lot in (pan-dried) gouache and then in Posca markers. Medium changes the vibe a lot! Which do you prefer? #sketchbook
New on the making blog: two fun and fast box bags #sewing making.melanie-richards.com/b...
A pair of box bags
Two boxy, roomy pouches for taking art supplies on the go
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Got a couple blog posts up over the weekend! Exhibit A: what I was up to in April melanie-richards.com/blog/lea...
Learning Log, Apr 2026
Basking in spring, despite the itis
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Affordances too if you don’t have a pointer device! How lovely and whimsical this is 💖
Neal Agarwal@neal.fun · 4mo agoIntroducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors. Out now :) > neal.fun/cursor-camp/
Drew another scene from Golden Gardens last weekend! This time facing the land and rendered in #PoscaPens. #PleinAirpril #sketchbook
Week 3 #PleinAirpril spread is a view of the Olympics from Golden Gardens, painted with #gouache (from pans) 🏔️
My baby loves the sound the Posca markers make when I shake them. Art is fun for the whole family!
TIL in Reader (by Readwise), you can double tap a paragraph to highlight it. All this time I've been tapping and dragging like a chump 🤦♀️
For #PleinAirpril week 2, I drew some American coots I saw swimming in a line in Seattle's Lake Union. Technically I did this one at home later (baby AND sketchbook being too much to manage at a bday hang) #sketchbook #PoscaPens
New on the making blog: a #knitting project I finished on the first weekend in spring 🧶 making.melanie-richards.com/m...
My Baker’s Hat
Just a simple beanie using a new-to-me free pattern
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Forever kicking off #PleinAirpril by drawing our pear tree 🍐 I'm planning to draw/paint weekly instead of daily. #sketchbook #StillmanAndBirn #DanielSmithWatercolors #LuminancePencils
I hath returned from the abyss with a blog post! I have been subsisting on Skinny Pop popcorn down here (only 50% kidding) melanie-richards.com/blog/lea...
Learning Log, Feb & Mar 2026
Returning to work from parental leave and welcoming spring
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Be the wrench you want to see in the works.
Ok, last blog post for this week. I’ve been a blog post machine because I may or may not be distracting myself from the fact that the baby starts daycare next week 😭 melanie-richards.com/blog/learnin...
Learning Log, Jan 2026
Defund, dissolve, abolish, melt the ICE
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*DJ. Khaled voice* Another one! All my active hobby projects wrapped around the same time, heh #sewing #quilting making.melanie-richards.com/n...
Nursery Mug Rug
A quick project for my daughter’s nightstand
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Another project I finished in January: my first capital-Q Quilt! #sewing #quilting making.melanie-richards.com/g...
Granny Core Baby Quilt
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National Nurses United, largest nurses' union in US, are holding actions over the coming week in honor of Alex Pretti and all others killed by ICE www.nationalnursesunited.org/week-of-acti...
Week of action in honor of Alex Pretti, RN and all others killed by ice
Join National Nurses United RN members in a week-long series of actions to honor Pretti and all who have been murdered by ICE, as well as demand that Congress vote to immediately abolish this violent,...
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May I offer you a birb or five in these trying times? #BirbFest2026 #sketchbook 🐤 making.melanie-richards.com/b...
Birb Fest 2026
Drawing birds with Posca pens throughout January
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