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  • Young Women's Leadership School
  • New York, NY
  • More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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My students in East Harlem asked ME to start this class, after they did a project in my 6th grade ELA class where I made them mimic a book’s embattled protagonist who finally found a home in the world through her skill of embroidery. As they learned to make a traditional "sampler" of embroidery stitches, we discussed the unfairness of calling traditional feminine textile arts “crafts” instead of “art”, and reflected about what women's lives must have been like when such stitching was mandatory, and/or one of only a few outlets for creativity a woman might have. Many students went home and connected with mothers and grandmothers over their embroidery hoop and thread. To our delight, many students, sometimes my most quiet, began to bring from home some of their family's work to show off: richly embroidered sari's, stitched floral blouses from Mexico, and sashiko embroidered haori from Japan. When they learned that I made many of my own clothes, they were excited, and asked, Will you teach us to sew? Learning to stitch, students reflected about how calm they’d felt working with deliberateness and slowness, and how proud they were of themselves for having carried their project to completion, despite setbacks, with patience and diligence...they even said they’d been happy to watch their hands instead of their screens for some portion of every day! Now, I’d like to give them more opportunities to experience that calm, and to astonish themselves and feel proud. I plan to teach students in my sewing elective basic sewing, starting with making reusable bags and pouches, and working up to basic garment sewing. We will do hand embroidery and machine sewing with the school's three ancient sewing machines. If we get really good, we'll expand to knitting, and crocheting, or even pattern drafting.

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My students in East Harlem asked ME to start this class, after they did a project in my 6th grade ELA class where I made them mimic a book’s embattled protagonist who finally found a home in the world through her skill of embroidery. As they learned to make a traditional "sampler" of embroidery stitches, we discussed the unfairness of calling traditional feminine textile arts “crafts” instead of “art”, and reflected about what women's lives must have been like when such stitching was mandatory, and/or one of only a few outlets for creativity a woman might have. Many students went home and connected with mothers and grandmothers over their embroidery hoop and thread. To our delight, many students, sometimes my most quiet, began to bring from home some of their family's work to show off: richly embroidered sari's, stitched floral blouses from Mexico, and sashiko embroidered haori from Japan. When they learned that I made many of my own clothes, they were excited, and asked, Will you teach us to sew? Learning to stitch, students reflected about how calm they’d felt working with deliberateness and slowness, and how proud they were of themselves for having carried their project to completion, despite setbacks, with patience and diligence...they even said they’d been happy to watch their hands instead of their screens for some portion of every day! Now, I’d like to give them more opportunities to experience that calm, and to astonish themselves and feel proud. I plan to teach students in my sewing elective basic sewing, starting with making reusable bags and pouches, and working up to basic garment sewing. We will do hand embroidery and machine sewing with the school's three ancient sewing machines. If we get really good, we'll expand to knitting, and crocheting, or even pattern drafting.

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