Meet Jessie Bell and our latest frame

Jessie Bell ~ Arizona Territory
photo courtesy of Little House Needleworks

Hi everyone! We would like to start out the new year with a brand new frame design, created especially for Little House Needleworks and their new sampler, Jessie Bell ~ Arizona Territory.  As Diane mentioned in today's post, Jessie Bell ~ Arizona Territory was created to commemorate Arizona's Centennial this February.  As an Arizona company (with one of us being an Arizona native), we were both honored and delighted to have been asked to provide the frame for this special sampler.

Jessie Bell ~ Arizona TerritoryDetail
photo courtesy of Little House Needleworks

Jessie's frame is called Prescott, after Arizona's first territorial capital. It is distressed to resemble old wood, much like you would find in the Wild West. The colorway is Dark Ale with an inner bead in Bisbee, which is a blackened copper. (Bisbee is an old Arizona mining town famous for her Copper Queen Mine.) So all the way around, this is an Arizona sampler!

Thank you, Diane! Once again, you have presented us with another wonderful design!

Please contact your favorite needlework shop for Little House Needleworks charts and Valley House Primitives frames.

A champion is born

As many of you are followers of Vonna, The Twisted Stitcher, it will come as no surprise that she is a fabulous stitcher and finisher. However, we now know that she is a champion stitcher and blue-ribbon winner, as well!

Needless to say, we are so very honored to have framed Vonna's entries, photos of which ~ in all of their be-ribboned glory ~ she has graciously allowed us to share here.

"The Family Sampler" by Little House Needleworks ©
Frame: MCC in Tavern Gold, Hairpin design©

"Sarah Seifer" by The Goode Huswife©
Frame: MCL in Moss & Redcoat with Chesapeake and Distressed design©

So hearty congratulations to you, dear Vonna! We look forward to many more ribbons, including that "Grand Champion" prize, next year!

Big, Beautiful Frame

This is just a short little post to show you this gorgeous frame, which graces a new release from  Little House Needleworks entitled "The Family Tree Sampler." It is difficult to capture perspective in this photo taken on the patio decking, but it is a large frame. The details are our moulding MCC (copyright 2007 by Valley House Primitives LLC) in Tavern Gold with a Hairpin graining design. And after you have visited Diane's Web site, hop on over to her Little House Needleworks blog ~ it's always filled with lovely things!

Please visit the Valley House Primitives Web site for a list of shops carrying our frames. If you do not see one close to you, please contact us at valleyhouseprim@aol.com.

Thanks for stopping by and as always, happy stitching!