patchwork quilt

A decorative quilt made of pieces of cloth having diverse sizes, colors, and shapes, sewn together either to form a regular pattern or in a deliberately mismatched fashion without a pattern.

Noun

  1. A decorative quilt made of pieces of cloth having diverse sizes, colors, and shapes, sewn together either to form a regular pattern or in a deliberately mismatched fashion without a pattern.
  2. Something having a haphazard or disorganized structure; something composed of seemingly random parts.
    • Despite a patchwork quilt of aid that includes scholarships, loans and an on-campus job, Kenner's father, a train conductor, must now pay $6,000 out of pocket to send his daughter to school. - 1989 September 25, Susan...

Forms

patchwork quilts

Synonyms

hodgepodge jumble

Related

crazy quilt