With both Eleanor Roosevelt and Ruth Finley calling for a quilt revival amid the Depression, women heeded their call and made quilts in the Roosevelt Rose pattern, including this one. Good Housekeeping sold copies of the pattern for twenty-five cents each, and in April 1934, The Chicago Daily Tribune published the pattern in its Nancy Cabot quilt column, offering, as it typically did for its published patterns, to send it to readers who mailed in five cents in stamps or coin. Extant versions of this historically influenced quilt pattern have ended up in museum and private collections, including IQM. and the FDR Presidential Library Museum.