Frogwarts Year 6

Frogwarts Year 6 by Kathryn Landis, released through The Black Needle Society — the sixth 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 6 was released at the July 2025 retreat and tracks Half-Blood Prince.

The full band reads as a Year-6 catalogue of references, left-to-right:

• A row of Slughorn’s potion bottles — including the rose-pink swirl of Amortentia (the most powerful love potion in the world) and a small bottle of Felix Felicis (“Liquid Luck”), which Slughorn awards to Harry and which Harry then uses on the Slughorn-memory night.
• A blue shopfront and a tall red building with awnings — Diagon Alley, with what reads as Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes (Fred and George’s joke shop, in full operation this year).
• “Levicorpus” in green script — one of the spells scribbled in the margins of Harry’s secondhand Potions textbook by the Half-Blood Prince, used by James Potter on Snape in the Pensieve memory.
• A bottle of Felix Felicis in a small framed motif — Harry’s prize.
• Two tall black Vanishing Cabinets — Draco’s year-long secret project, repairing the broken cabinet at Hogwarts to pair it with the matching one in Borgin & Burkes so the Death Eaters can walk straight into the school.
• A gold ring with a black stone above the cabinets — the Gaunt ring, the Resurrection Stone hidden inside, the Horcrux Dumbledore destroys (which kills his hand).
• A fiery phoenix in red and orange — Fawkes, flying away from Hogwarts after Dumbledore’s death; we never see him again.
• A small Slytherin locket — the Horcrux locket Harry and Dumbledore retrieve from the cave (which turns out to have been swapped by RAB — Regulus Arcturus Black — and is a fake).
• A Dark Mark in green and purple — the snake-and-skull cast in the sky over the Astronomy Tower after Snape kills Dumbledore.
• “Sectumsempra” in red script — another Half-Blood Prince marginalia spell, the one Harry uses on Draco in Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom (and which we later learn was Snape’s own invention — for enemies).
• A blue band running across the top of the scene with the year’s signature line — “Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, Adventure” — Dumbledore, leaving Hogwarts with Harry to retrieve the locket from the cave. Yes, sir.
• 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 5 band sits directly above this one. The empty Year 7 panel waits below — Year 7 releases at the July 2026 retreat, which will complete the set.

Started June 29, 2025. Finished July 9, 2025 — during the Year 6 retreat itself, ten days flat. 12,443 stitches for this band alone.