Square cross stitch sampler. There are three distinguished sections of the canvas. The top has the alphabet in all capital letters and numbers 1-12. Underneath the three lines is a vertical zig-zag line. The middle section is stitched, "Mary Vanvalken: B / Urch: Sept: 29: 1820 / 10 Year" the last line is ended with a heart, u-z &. The line seperating the next section is in non-connected x's. The bottom section has a-t in lowercase letters followed by three lines of script capital letters.