Full of texture and action, they feature bread dough that looks as if you could reach out and knead it, tiny quilts that appear soft and warm, animals engaged in everything from planting seeds to playing funny games.
More subversively, Michael Phelan and Jonah Freeman look back to late-1960's acid-rock poster art in two small, richly patterned hallucinatory images, printed on the sheets of blotter paper used to hold LSD, which are perforated with grids and resemble tiny quilts.
His baby blanket is a tiny patchwork quilt.
Upex cleanly updated certain aspects, like the overlapping dual front headlamps in clear housings (with chrome surrounds against a field of tiny chrome quilts).
Tucked away in a tiny room, she patched a quilt with a sewing machine that had been lent to help her start a seamstress business.
A tiny red room contains a quilt by Sara Impey in the shape of an oversized chain, which hangs from the ceiling.
There is fine art — like Stephanie Howard's pen-and-ink drawings, with tiny obsessive patterns reminiscent of quilts ($400 to $2,100) — as well as decorative and wearable items, including hand-dyed ties by Jen Swearington ($48) and a pendant lamp by Christopher Moulder ($1,150).
"The income of a non-mainstream artist like me is a patchwork quilt and streaming is currently one tiny square in that quilt.
Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic: "The income of a non-mainstream artist like me is a patchwork quilt and streaming is currently one tiny square in that quilt.
A woman who lost her home in the tiny town of Phil Campbell, Ala., claimed her homemade quilt found in Athens, Ala., nearly 50 miles away: "Phil Campbell Class of 2000," it read.
Dunphy's deadpan quilt paintings, patched together from hundreds of tiny squares and triangles of painted canvas, suggest that the same, obsessive-compulsive impulse lies behind the cozy, "feminine" craft and the coolly intellectual, "masculine" art.
