A crazy quilt or throw composed of 25 blocks, each approximately 11-3/4' to 12-1/4' square created from irregular swatches of various silk materials including satins, failles, velvets, printed and patterned silks, ribbons, and moirés. The seams between swatches are covered with a variety of decorative embroidery stitches including floral, snowflake, and key designs, and variations of the feather stitch worked in a multitude of colors of thread. Embroidered in the upper left corner of the quilt in yellow thread with blue flowers on a white satin ground are the initials 'K M E.' In the upper right corner is an embroidered musical staff with the cattails, pansies, dogwood blossoms, goldenrod, water lilies, rosebuds, cherries, holly, ivy, black-eyed Susans, thistles, wheat, petunias, etc.). The center block features a brilliant embroidered peacock in satin and stem stitches on a black ground and the block above includes a woven Stenvengraph depicting a race horse and jockey. Other animals and insects include a chick emerging from an egg, butterflies, and spiders with their webs. Other typical motifs include a crescent moon and star, and a peacock feather. The majority of motifs are embroidered. Many are partially worked in chenille threads. Some are appliquéd from velvet or silk faille or ribbon. The ivy leaves are appliquéd in green velvet with embroidered veins and stems. Embroidery stitches used in motifs throughout include stem, satin and French knots, especially as flower centers. The quilt is surrounded by a red silk satin border 3-3/4' wide embroidered with floral motifs in white, light blue, yellow, and green. Like most crazy quilts or throws, this example is most likely pieced to a cotton foundation (although this cannot be determined due to the backing) and it is not actually quilted. The backing consists of several widths (each approx. 33' wide) of golden brown cotton twill.