An album quilt square consisting of a muslin ground with designs created through appliqué, embroidery, and ruching with handwritten ink inscription added. Motifs include a narrow appliqued circular wreath with narrow oval leaves and four large flower blooms formed of ruched fabric gathered into three-dimensional blooms. Within the wreath are additional leaves and four "buds" created with reverse qpplique pointing to the center of the wreath. Also at the center of the wreath is a sketch in brown/black ink of a memorial monument composed of obalisque atop a square plinth standing on a grassy mount with a large "willow" tree. Fabrics used in this block include Turkey-red plain calico, a purple/ lavender rainbow print, a green ground print with very small floral pattern in black or dark green with yellow flower centeres, and a yellow-ground print with a brown circle. The edges of appliquéd fabrics are turned under and finished with invisible stitches. Small embroidered elements are added in green. The square is unlined and has neither batting nor quilting. The edges are unfinished. n this simpler style, fabric is gathered in ruched rosettes to give a sense of depth and texture to the design. Ruched flowers are created by first gathering a strip of material along a running stitch sewn in a repeating right-angle zigzag pattern. As the strip is gathered, it is sewn down in concentric circles or spirals, each row passing under the tips of the former to form a flower. The overlapping rows of ruched fabric give a naturalistic aspect of depth and texture to the flowers and raise a simple wreath design to a new level of sophistication.