Handwork Series - grade 7

I have been wanting for a while to do a series of posts on my suggestions for Handwork in each grade. So I will work on that now! These are my own ideas of what to do when, partly informed by my Handwork Teacher Training (Fiber Craft Studio, Threefold Educational Center, Spring Valley NY) and partly by what I think works well from personal experience in the classroom.

a beautiful final project done by one of my friends in the training!

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Here are all of the blog posts in my Handwork Series:

Handwork Series - K

Handwork Series - grade 1

Handwork Series - grade 2

Handwork Series - grade 3

Handwork Series - grade 4

Handwork Series - grade 5

Handwork Series - grade 6

Handwork Series - grade 7

Handwork Series - grade 8

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Now on to my grade 7 notes. I'll update them if I come up with new ideas:

embroidery

sashiko / visible mending
Sashiko-Inspired Mending with Jujizashi

Mend and Embellish with Needle Felting and Embroidery
from "Making Zen" May 2025 with Betz White

The Living Line: Marking Days with Dots
from "Making Zen" May 2026 with Jeri Bellini



a lovely meditative daily practice!

story quilt (Booklist for Story Quilts)

wet felting slippers or vessels

Simply Felt: 20 Easy and Elegant Designs in Wool
by Margaret Docherty and Jayne Emerson

Cyanotype Printing on Fabric
from "Making Zen" Oct 2025 with Madge Evers

a nice connection with grade 7 Chemistry

paper marbling and bookbinding

a nice connection with the Renaissance & Reformation

The History of Marbling in Italy

Grade 7 is famously open-ended and a bit tricky for Handwork teachers! I've also heard of Waldorf teachers doing copper hammering or leather working.

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The A to Z of Slowstitch
2026 year-long project by k3n clothtales

A lot of inspiration here for grade 7!

I'll keep track of these YouTube videos as she releases them:

A is for Appliqué

A is for Ainu Textiles

B is for Blanket Stitch

B is for Bubbles: Basque Stitch, Boutis, Backstitch, Bullion Knots

C is for Couching, Code (Morse), and Cretan Stitch

C is for Community

D is for Drawn Threadwork

D is for Disappearing Ninepatch

E is for Earth, English Paper Piecing, and Ermine Stitch

E is for Envelope Pouch

F is for Feather

F is for Found Objects

G is for Grid

G is for Garden

H is for Hexagon Honeycomb

H is for Haiku

I is for Inchies

I is for Interlocking I Stitch, Indigo, and Ivory Thread

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