Large rectangular crazy quilt top composed of small irregular patches of numerous fabrics including velvets, figured ribbons, plaids, stripes, checks, monotoned patterned silks, chisele velvets, woven brocades with Japanese influence, dots, brocades with metallic threads, and ikat chine or handpainted ribbons. The quilt top is densely ornamented with painting, embroidery, and ribbon work. Embroidered motifs include a swan, a frog and spider, and spider with a web, a butterfly, birds, a cat's head, a snail's shell, a parrot, a fish, a deer with a beaded eye, a cricket, a chicken within a wreath, a plush spider, a large horses head, and a crescent moon and stars. Flowers, embroided, appliqued, embroidered with ribbons, and/or painted include a sunflower with a raised center, cattails, pansies, tiger lilies, calla lilies, daisies, a red coxcomb-like flower with metallic detail, dogwoods, leaves, goldenrod, lily of the valley. Outline embroideries include a Kate Greenaway figure of a girl on a fence and another of a girl with a chicken. Other outline embroideries are a spoon fork, and knife, a teacup, a horseshoe, chinese coins, a star-like motif, a hand, a chair, fishes, shells, and fans. At the lower left is a large fan motif created of many pieces of fabric with a ruched red flower at the point. A great variety of decorative stitches in various colored threads is used to cover the seams betweeen patches. Various ribbons are worked into the design including a pink ribbon that spirals into a circle with a coral brooch attached to the center, circular ribbons attached under the swan motif and in other places, sometimes with spangles. A section of red ribbon is painted with flowers and embroidered in cross stitch with the letters "LC"'and the date "1885". Another white satin patch with a red flower, golden rod flowers, and small blue flowers at the left of center near the top also bears the initials "IMH". This quilt top is unfinished with no border and partially folded edges on three sides.