This needlepoint pillow is based on a late eighteenth-century needlework picture made by Mary Woodhull, which is now in the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation collection. This type of harvest scene was typical of needleworks from the Boston region. Mary Woodhull probably worked the picture at a school between 1755 and 1774, before she married Amos Underhill of Flushing, Long Island, on March 20, 1774.

The original scene of a man and woman harvesting grain was worked in shades of blue, green, red, and tan wool on linen canvas. Its bold colors, simplified shapes, and imaginative patterns are aesthetically appealing.