Square, tan table cloth with peach, red, green, yellow, blue and brown cross stitching. Very little staining or fraying, but heavily creased. In each corner, there are three shapes that look like two intersecting square outlines. One square is green with red dots while the other is red and peach with green dots. They are both outlined in brown. They touch the other shapes in their corner with green edges, and there is a green design and a peach design above and below the intersection. In the middle, there is a shape like a square with rounded corners. There is alternating blue and yellow in each corner. In the middle, there is a green snowflake shape that touches each of the colors and goes through red areas that are in between the blue and yellow to form a T at the end. Along the sides of the tablecloth, there is a thin border of a brown line with green below it, and blue hanging off of the green. The square like design that appeared in the middle of the shapes on the edges is also in the middle of each side above the border. The same border is repeated in the middle of the cloth, with four more of the shapes in the middle of the edges of the smaller rectangle.

Cross stitch is a form of counted thread embroidery, in which the number of threads in the fabric must be counted in order to ensure equal tightness across all of the stitches. Pieces of cross stitch are typically called samplers because they were made by girls who were beginning to learn how to sew.

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