Frogwarts Year 7

Frogwarts Year 7 by Kathryn Landis, released through The Black Needle Society — the seventh and final 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 7 was released at the July 2026 retreat and tracks Deathly Hallows. This is the one that finishes the sampler.

The full band reads as a Year-7 catalogue of references, left-to-right:

• A small maroon beaded bag — Hermione’s handbag, under an Undetectable Extension Charm, which is how three teenagers on the run carry a tent, a library, and Phineas Nigellus’s portrait around in something the size of a purse.
• A silver doe — Snape’s Patronus, the one that leads Harry through the Forest of Dean to the frozen pool and the Sword of Gryffindor. The whole band is built around her.
• The Deathly Hallows symbol above a small open book — The Tales of Beedle the Bard, the book Dumbledore leaves Hermione in his will, and where “The Tale of the Three Brothers” hides the mark of the Hallows.
• A golden cup — Helga Hufflepuff’s Cup, the Horcrux in Bellatrix’s vault.
• A dark chandelier with Dobby clinging to the top of it — Malfoy Manor, caught in the second before he drops the whole thing on Bellatrix and Disapparates everyone out.
• A white marble building marked BANK — Gringotts — with a dragon breathing fire above it: the blind, half-starved Ukrainian Ironbelly chained under the vaults, which they ride straight up through the roof.
• An ornate framed portrait of a girl with auburn hair — Ariana Dumbledore, hanging in the Hog’s Head, who swings aside to open the passage into Hogwarts.
• “Piertotum Locomotor” in navy script — McGonagall’s spell, waking the castle’s stone knights and suits of armour to defend Hogwarts. “I’ve always wanted to use that spell.”
• Hogwarts castle in gold and slate, with the white wooden bridge below it and a pale shield charm arcing overhead — the Battle of Hogwarts, the protective dome the teachers raise over the school, and the bridge Neville brings down.
• A small diadem with a blue stone — Ravenclaw’s Diadem, the Horcrux in the Room of Requirement.
• A long slender wand across the top — the Elder Wand.
• Under a gold arch, the Hogwarts Express at platform 9¾ — the epilogue. Nineteen years later.
• A gold-and-rust diamond band running under the whole scene, and the year’s signature line beneath it — “After all this time?” … “Always.” — Snape to Dumbledore, which is of course the doe.
• The Padfoot pawprint border framing the band — see the Frogwarts Border entry for the freebie’s backstory; the pattern is free on this site. The border went up around the empty Year 7 panel back in January 2026, waiting. This is the year it finally got filled.

The Year 6 band sits directly above this one, and below Year 7 there is nothing — because there is no Year 8. Seven bands, seven books, one piece of Picture This Plus Heartland, and Padfoot’s tracks running the whole way down.

Floss changes I made to this band, for anyone following along:

• Diamond band — Classic Colorworks Fallen Leaves on the top and bottom rows, Gentle Art Sampler Threads Harvest Moon through the centre, instead of the called-for colours.
• The diadem — the gems in Kreinik 018 and Kreinik 011HL; the rest of the diadem in Kreinik 1432 and Kreinik 014.
• The spell — Piertotum Locomotor swapped from GAST Midnight to GAST Royal Purple.
• Dobby and the dragon — swapped CC Dulce de Leche for DMC 945.
• The chandelier — added Kreinik 032.
• The sparkles — added Kreinik 033 to the centre of the repeating sparkle motifs scattered across the band.
• The train — swapped Classic Colorworks Witching Hour for GAST Black Licorice.
• The train - swapped GAST Old Purple Paint for DMC 3799.
• Added Backstitching — the bank in CC Cauldron, the dragon in DMC 945, the bridge in CC Gingerbread, and the 9¾ sign in GAST Black Licorice.

Started June 28, 2026. Finished July 8, 2026 — eleven days, during the Year 7 retreat itself. 12,115 stitches for this band alone, and the last stitch of a sampler I’ve been adding to since 2023.