The Cincinnati Enquirer featured this quilt with thirteen appliquéd blocks each in the design of the NRA logo. The newspaper recounted that A.E. Marthens—a sixty three-year-old grocer—“proudly displays this needlework of current history which he copied from the patriotic symbol on his NRA membership card hung in his store window.” The article mentions that his only previous quiltmaking experience was helping his wife finish a quilt sixteen years earlier and that he stitched at his masterpiece during lulls in between customers. Marthens was one of many grassroots quilters who created original NRA quilts inspired by the Blue Eagle logo.