Frogwarts Year 2

Frogwarts Year 2 by Kathryn Landis, released through The Black Needle Society — the second chart in the seven-part Frogwarts band sampler that mirrors the seven Harry Potter books, one band per year, dropped annually at The Black Needle Society’s Frogwarts online stitching retreat. Year 2 was released at the July 2021 retreat and tracks Chamber of Secrets.

The full band reads as a Year-2 catalogue of references, left-to-right:

• The Burrow — the Weasleys’ rambling crooked many-story house, where Harry spends part of the summer after Ron, Fred, and George rescue him from his locked room at Privet Drive.
• The flying blue Ford Anglia — Mr Weasley’s enchanted car, used to fly Harry and Ron to Hogwarts after Dobby seals the platform barrier, and which later saves them from Aragog’s children in the Forbidden Forest.
• A screaming mandrake with deep roots — the second-year Herbology lesson with Professor Sprout, used at the climax to brew the Mandrake Restorative Draught for the Petrified students.
• “Expelliarmus” in orange script — the Disarming Charm, on display at Lockhart’s disastrous Duelling Club (where Harry first learns he’s a Parselmouth).
• Dobby — the house-elf in the pillowcase, trying to “save” Harry by spectacularly inconvenient methods all year.
• A small camera — Colin Creevey, the first-year photographer who ends up Petrified while trying to photograph Harry.
• A potted mandrake sapling and small scuttling spiders — the spiders fleeing the castle that tip Harry and Ron off to follow them into the forest.
• A small “PIPES” sign — Slytherin’s monster moves through the school’s plumbing, and the entrance to the Chamber is hidden in Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom.
• Tom Riddle’s diary — the enchanted book that possesses Ginny all year and serves as the Horcrux Harry destroys in the Chamber with a Basilisk fang.
• A massive green Basilisk with a flash of red Fawkes the Phoenix at her mouth — Slytherin’s monster, killed in the Chamber by Harry with the Sword of Gryffindor (after Fawkes blinds her so the deadly gaze can’t take Harry out).
• A green serpentine banner reading “ENEMIES OF THE HEIR BEWARE” — the message written in blood on the corridor wall by the petrifier.
• A decorative striped band running underneath the whole scene with the year’s signature line — “Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it” — Dumbledore, in his office to Harry after the events in the Chamber.
• The Padfoot pawprint border running across this band — see the Frogwarts Border entry for the freebie’s backstory; the pattern is free on this site.

Same continuous piece of 32ct Picture This Plus Heartland as the rest of the sampler — the Year 1 band sits directly above this one and the Year 3 band directly below. Year 7 releases at the July 2026 retreat, which will complete the set.

Started January 14, 2024. Finished December 29, 2025. 11,325 stitches for this band alone.