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Melanie Made 👩‍🎨✨
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🧶🧵🎨 @melanierichards.bsky.social’s space for knitting • sewing • weaving • drawing

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I’m working on my first capital-Q quilt! It’s the Granny Core Quilt in the baby size, which will hang on the wall in my wee baby’s room. #quilting #quiltsky #grannycorequilt #dcpgrannycore

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Granny Core Quilt PDF Pattern
The Granny Core Quilt takes inspiration from our favorite heirloom fiber art motifs. This pattern uses clever strip piecing techniques that will help build your cutting and seam-matching skills. Instr...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Finished knitting my second pair of socks last week! #knitting #knitsky #sockKnitting #colorworkKnitting making.melanie-richards.com/flower-power...
Flower Power Socks
A floral foray into colorwork socks
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September 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Finally used my ball winder and swift! Cake, anyone? #knitsky
My hand holding a stack of two yarn cakes, each in different tones of variegated pastel purples. Both are actually Spincycle Dreamland in the color “Tough Love”
August 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Purchased a couple patterns from @sewliberated.bsky.social for the first time! As a person who tends to fall in the middle of size range overlaps, I appreciate that they give you the full range to download with one purchase 💜 #garmentSewing
August 26, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Finished knitting the second sock of my second pair! Now I just need to block them. #knitsky #sockKnitting #colorworkKnitting

Pattern: Cuff Club vol 1, August by Summer Lee Knits
A sock in variegated yarn of cream, pinks, and lime greens. Around the cuff is a dark green flower motif. The sock turned inside out to show the floats inside. This creates a negative image where the flowers are made from the variegated yarn, and the background appears dark green.
August 25, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Second year attending #flockFiberFestival! My favorite thing is watching everyone arrive in their me-made knits 🥰 #knitting
August 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Finally got to join a live session of The Scribble Brigade with @sophiemcpike.bsky.social! ✨ We played with how different color underlayers change the vibe of an otherwise consistent drawing. Parallel play makes everything more fun 🥰

#sketchbook #TalensArtCreation #Tombows #EcolineBrushPens
An open sketchbook on a desk with four color panels in blue, purple, pink, orange, yellow, chartreuse, and two greens. Each panel shows the same marker drawing of green and purple mountains, but the marker under layer changes the tone as it mixes with the top layer.
August 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Trying a new format for my crafting blog: a wee monthly roundup! #knitting #sewing
Made in July 2025
Not a big month for making, but got a couple little things done regardless.
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August 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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August 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Made some mug rugs yesterday with my leftover 🍙🐹 fabric #sewsky #sewing #quilting
Two 6x9” quilted mug rugs, with stitch lines in a diamond pattern. The cream fabric features hamsters shaped like onigiri and holding items that are usually paired with the rice balls, such as shiso leaves, seaweed, and octopus A small, indigo-colored Japanese tea mug on one of the mug rugs. It has no handle, and the glaze has a subtle dappled pattern.
July 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Got a couple blog posts up for my June sewing projects! First up, a project pouch featuring onigiri hamster fabric 🍙🐹 #sewsky #sewing #sewingForHobbies

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Onigiri hamster project pouch
A canvas project bag for knitting, featuring some of the most adorable fabric I’ve used to date
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July 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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NEW PROMPT LIST ALERT!!

A bunch of friends and I are hosting an August prompt list, with two prompts per week (do one or both for each week). I'm so excited for it to staaaaaart!! Will you be joining?

#AugustAdventures2025 #art #illustration
A prompt list graphic for an art prompt list, called "August Adventures" and with a list of weekly prompts for August "bloom + journey", "meadow + rain", "ancient + trinkets" and "sprout + magic". The drawing features a journal scrapbook style composition with little drawn "photos" and scraps of paper.
July 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Didn’t finish sewing my T-shirt dress today as planned, but I did finish the cuff of my second flower sock!

Pattern is Summer Lee’s Colorwork Cuff Club, August.
#knitting #knitsky #colorworkKnitting #sockKnitting
June 23, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Sewing a neckband on a stretch knit garment #sewsky
elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of fire .
Alt: A raggedy stuffed Elmo from Sesame Street standing in front of a wall of fire, with arms outstretched to the heavens in desperation
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June 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Tested out my Diamine Amazonia ink sample with a little en plein air drawing! The lighter green is my favorite Ecoline color, Bronze Green. 🌿

#sketchbook #urbansketching #pleinair
A small square sketchbook with a drawing of a tree-lined path in vibrant greens. There’s a cool, fairly dark green for the lines and shadows and a warm green for the mid tones.
June 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Swatched the new Copic acrea paint markers and I think I might like these more than Poscas, actually! I hope they continue to expand the range.

#sketchbook #talensArtCreation #copicAcrea
A sketchbook with opaque circles swatched in 24 different colors of acrylic paint markers. The right-hand page lists prices and cons. Pros are about time to prime, opaqueness, dry time, and feeling when using them. Cons are the limited color range and single nib size.
March 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Hi friends, I’m Melanie! 👋

I work in tech, love color, and draw / paint just for fun. I plan to use this account as a casual way to share my sketchbook.
March 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM