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Ms. Wylie from New York, NY is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Pride, One Stitch at a Time

Help me give my students sewing supplies including fabric, scissors and embroidery floss so they can discover hidden talents and experience the meditative satisfaction of working with their hands.

  • $582 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

My East Harlem middle schoolers are curious, deep-thinking, funny, passionate young women. They are learning how to become leaders of their own lives, and eventually to step into leadership in the larger world.

My students love discovering new capabilities, and surprising others with what they can do and make and master!

While they often get to learn and then show off traditional academic skills, students’ special interests and talents don’t always get much coaching. Most families in our part of East Harlem don’t have extra money to spend on tuition for outside classes. Those outside classes are often what helps a person self-define, or what brings balance to a student's life with they are so deeply engaged in rigorous academic turnaround. Wouldn’t it be great to even the playing field a little and bring some of those outside class opportunities to East Harlem girls who are curious, diligent, and itching to discover what they can do!

My Project

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.

Ms. Wylie Young Women's Leadership School Grades 6-8

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Premium Embroidery Floss & Bracelet String Kits with Organizer Storage Box-447 Colors Cross Stitch Threads Set-Friendship Bracelets Floss-Crafts Floss-Cotton Floss • Amazon Business $89.99 2 $179.98
LA Linen Cotton Muslin Fabric By The 25 Yards Bolt, 60" Wide, Natural Color. • Amazon Business $74.95 1 $74.95
Kona Cotton Solids Elizabeth Hartman Designer Palette 25 Fat Quarter Bundle Robert Kaufman Fabrics FQ-796-25 • Amazon Business $69.98 1 $69.98
Gingher 8-Inch Knife Edge Dressmaker's Shears • Amazon Business $20.30 2 $40.60
YYSZ 8Pcs Green 18" x 22" Fat Quarters Fabric Bundles for Patchwork Quilting,Pre-Cut Quilt Squaresxa0for DIY Sewing Patterns Crafts • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
YaHoGa 100pcs 7 Inch (18cm) Nylon Coil Zippers for Sewing Crafts Tailor Nylon Zippers Bulk 20 Colors (7" 100pcs) • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
BYY 56pcs/lot 9.8" x 9.8" (25cm x 25cm) No Repeat Design Printed Floral Cotton Fabric for Patchwork, Sewing Tissue to Patchwork,Quilting Squares Bundles • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Printed Fruits Cotton Fat Quarters Fabric Bundles,Quilting Fabric for DIY Sewing Crafts,18" x 22"(Multi) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
30 Large Eye Stitching Needles - 3 Sizes - Big Eye Hand Sewing Needles in Clear Storage Tube • Amazon Business $6.23 2 $12.46
Yalis 100 Pcs Premium Sewing Clips Multipurpose Sewing Accessories Quilting Supplies Crafting Tools, Assorted 9 Bright Colors • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Ultima Tailors Chalk - 12 Triangle Chalks for Tailoring, Sewing, Quilting, Crafting, Notions, Fabric Marking - Sewing Notions & Accessories (12 Pieces. Assorted Colors) • Amazon Business $5.77 1 $5.77

Materials cost

$457.69

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.87

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$494.56

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$87.28

Total project goal

$581.84

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $581.84

5 Donors

-$581.13

Donations toward project cost

-$494.56

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$86.57

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.71

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 $0.00

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