Definition of patchwork in English:

patchwork

noun ˈpatʃwəːkˈpætʃˌwərk

mass noun

1Needlework in which small pieces of cloth in different designs, colours, or textures are sewn together.
（由不同图案、颜色和质地的小块织物拼缝而成的）拼缝物，拼布
a piece of patchwork
一件拼布手作。
as modifier a patchwork bedspread
一块拼布床罩。
Example sentencesExamples
- A small, brightly coloured patchwork ball made from pieces of multicoloured cloth.
- Somewhere in there, I decided that fabric was not for throwing away and began creating patchwork designs, sometimes piecing quilts.
- As early as February, I was surrounded by patchwork fields of brilliant colours that give the area from Ventimiglia to San Remo the name the Riviera of Flowers.
- From the right-hand corner flag they pieced together a patchwork that stretched back across the field and allowed Pires to add the final flourish.
- Learn how to create a cross between a quilt and a pillow using simple patchwork designs.
- A most remarkable lady Lily was a genius at needlework and made the most extraordinary patchwork quilts by hand sewing.
- Schools and community centres have joined together to produce a huge piece of textile art, inspired by the traditional Bengali patchwork cloth, the kantha.
- Togneri, based in Culloden, specialises in traditional British patchwork in which geometric pieces of cloth are hand-sewn edge to edge to produce elaborate and complex designs.
- You can cut the squares into shapes for appliqués and secure the edges with an open zigzag stitch, or cut the squares into pieces and seam them into patchwork designs.
- A 350-metre-long patchwork quilt made of 1,000 cloth pieces is carrying an urgent cultural message to the Chinese.
- Mrs Grey is, as I write, curled up on the floor of my study in a nest of patchwork pieces.
- Presumably it's a bit easier to staple together a jump-around party record from musical snippets found down the back of the sofa, but some of these patchwork pieces are surprisingly dark.
- Whilst historians are prone to talk of France prior to 1789 as a unified entity, it was in fact a patchwork quilt to which pieces were still being added in the eighteenth century.
- Take your large piece of fabric and patchwork square, put them right sides together and neatly sew three sides together leaving a 1/2-inch seam.
- Simon's brands work more like a patchwork quilt - each piece delicately overlapping the next - than like a jigsaw puzzle.
- The patterns lend themselves well to appliqué, quilting, patchwork, paint, texture, and collage.
- If nothing else, this is an honest reflection of the screenplay's patchwork texture, where unfortunately all the stitches show.
- Fred had stitched fine patchwork quilts that covered the beds and hung on the walls of his house.
- For the girls, the colours are subtle with rainbow blocks, patchwork, topstitching, embroidery and prints in a variety of style.
- These images were mere shreds of evidence, loosely stitched together like a patchwork quilt.
1. 1.1 The craft of sewing in which small pieces of cloth in different designs, colours, or textures are sewn together.
  （由不同图案、颜色和质地的小块织物拼缝而成的）拼缝物，拼布
  specialists in quilting and patchwork
  缝被子和拼布手艺行家。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Creative quilting, patchwork and appliqué commence at the end of January.
  Crafts that will be taught glasswork, upholstery and patchwork, 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm.
  Unfortunately, after an accident, she had to give up her career, and she then devoted herself to embroidery, patchwork and quilting, taking City and Guilds courses parts I and II in both.
  Queensland Quilters Inc. is a non-profit organisation, aimed at promoting the art and craft of patchwork and quilting.
  The craft of patchwork and quilting dates back to ancient times when the prime purpose was warmth and protection, today it is practised internationally and it is as varied and decorative as the individual desires.
  I am also sampling the patchwork and quilting taster course during Adult Learners' Week.
  If you fancy trying patchwork and quilting, wine-tasting, flavours of the world, cooking for special diets or Basic IT Skills then let us know.
2. 1.2count noun A thing composed of many different elements so as to appear variegated.
  拼凑的东西；杂烩
  a patchwork of stone walls and green fields
  石墙和绿地拼成的景色。
  Example sentencesExamples
  More complex models with linked genetics and epistasis and more complex demography will likely show even more complex patchworks of maladaptation across landscapes.
  It was not meant to cover a mass-casualty attack on ethnic, racial and religious patchworks such as London or New York City.
  Many of them are, in effect, patchworks made up from fragments of different dances.
  At times the ocean breeze would steal snatches of their conversation and carry them to us, wrapping these patchwork pieces of their adult lives about us like a reassuring quilt.
  As this happens, and political pressures build, we will apply small patchworks to the existing healthcare system, and we will do this over and over until we have a rickety edifice that is literally the worst of all possible worlds.
  The effort is not all a loss, though, as successive pieces forge a springily malleable array of wiry patchworks that tug at and tease expectations.
  Including painted patchworks of color and other collaged materials, such as silver paper and billboard scraps, the gridded compositions are essentially geometric, yet decidedly improvisational and playful.
  The pieces emerge, not as verbatim stories, but as patchworks of tactile forms.
  Ambon city divides into patchworks of guarded religious enclaves.
  Suburban patchworks of cover, such as small wooded areas and brush, combine with open areas to provide coyotes with good hunting grounds.
  And those strange patchworks of cultivated soil, potting sheds and pathways play a more vital role than most people might imagine in the cohesion of local communities, recreation, and environmental protection.
  Over my shoulder, mighty crags dwarf patchworks of barley fields.
  Two other gallery walls offered dense patchworks of light-hued paintings by Irish, alongside darker works scavenged from the Academy's collection.
  And if the characters she occupies are never more than tenuous patchworks, neither, her work insists, are we.
  Instead, the coding regions of the genes are composed of mosaics, or patchworks of stretches of similar or identical DNA sequences, some of which are highlighted in Fig 1.
  As the man assembles without distinction samples from different areas, each track feeds on combined atmospheres, creating intricate impressionist patchworks of intense beauty.
  The result is an intriguing brew of thick textures jibing into a florid collection of sonic patchworks.
  The site where space-age stadiums, rolling green lawns and a meandering brook are planned to appear is today a patchwork of ageing apartment blocks, small businesses, and dusty fields.
  Look, our whole beings and minds are made up of patchworks of memories and networks of triggers.
  Through its patchwork texture of interlocking stories, the text emulates this form of communal realism, and the novel becomes a kind of neighborhood.
  Synonyms
  assortment, miscellany, mixture, melange, medley, blend, variety, mixed bag, mix, diversity, collection, selection, assemblage, combination, motley collection, pot-pourri, conglomeration, jumble, mess, confusion, mishmash, hotchpotch, hodgepodge, ragbag, pastiche, farrago, hash
  informal scissors-and-paste job
  rare gallimaufry, omnium gatherum, olio, salmagundi, macédoine

Derivatives

patchworked

adjective

I have to admit that seven hours of poring through patchworked PHP code after having worked through the night is not the best first step towards acquiring a healthy lifestyle.
Example sentencesExamples
- Teaching sustainable building skills to help replace the fire-hazard corrugated zinc sheeting patchworked together into houses (without having to rely on the 10-year old unfulfilled government housing promises).
- The patchworked results are watchable, particularly Wayne's more versatile than usual performance, but unsatisfying.
- The Tamar Valley trail runs through landscape framed by distant mountains and patchworked with vine-braided fields, the river at their feet.
- Her hands are making tiny swimming motions in the air as they pull her avatar through the sidewalks rendered on the inside of her glasses, patchworked in realtime from same node transmissions which made night day for me.
- Because of the haphazard way events are patchworked together, it's nigh onto impossible to follow the flow of the season.
- So her childhood is patchworked with the wonder of new places, linked with a common thread of summers spent in Kerry, with her mother's people.
- Chris breezes in wearing a tall, stovepipe hat that is patchworked in about a hundred different colors and fabrics.
- A bright-blue piece of plastic for a door, newspaper-and-cardboard walls, patchworked plastic bags for waterproofing - and two ends open to the elements.
- Continuing with the arts and craft theme, the cloth is patchworked and contrasts pieced together in a fusion of bright and pastel shades.
- They both work in patterns and patchworked sequences.
- These made-up, swiped, or patchworked personalities become the vehicle for fiction's ethical work.
- On the broad streets where the German cobbles are patchworked with crusty commie asphalt and potholes, hundreds of nicked western BMWs, Mercedes and Fiats lurch and belch around ancient trams and trolleybuses.
- Compounding this, the editors have patchworked the images together as though they'd be uninvited from the wrap party if more than six consecutive frames from the same shot passed by, uninterrupted by scissors.
- The script also feels a bit patchworked together.
- They have stumbled through the postmodern junkyard, loaded together all of the synthetic throbs, hums, and moans they could find and patchworked them into one gorgeous mess.

Definition of patchwork in US English:

patchwork

nounˈpaCHˌwərkˈpætʃˌwərk

1Needlework in which small pieces of cloth in different designs, colors, or textures are sewn together.
（由不同图案、颜色和质地的小块织物拼缝而成的）拼缝物，拼布
a quilt of patchwork
一件拼布手作。
as modifier patchwork bell-bottoms
Example sentencesExamples
- If nothing else, this is an honest reflection of the screenplay's patchwork texture, where unfortunately all the stitches show.
- Learn how to create a cross between a quilt and a pillow using simple patchwork designs.
- Take your large piece of fabric and patchwork square, put them right sides together and neatly sew three sides together leaving a 1/2-inch seam.
- Mrs Grey is, as I write, curled up on the floor of my study in a nest of patchwork pieces.
- Presumably it's a bit easier to staple together a jump-around party record from musical snippets found down the back of the sofa, but some of these patchwork pieces are surprisingly dark.
- Whilst historians are prone to talk of France prior to 1789 as a unified entity, it was in fact a patchwork quilt to which pieces were still being added in the eighteenth century.
- A 350-metre-long patchwork quilt made of 1,000 cloth pieces is carrying an urgent cultural message to the Chinese.
- A small, brightly coloured patchwork ball made from pieces of multicoloured cloth.
- The patterns lend themselves well to appliqué, quilting, patchwork, paint, texture, and collage.
- Schools and community centres have joined together to produce a huge piece of textile art, inspired by the traditional Bengali patchwork cloth, the kantha.
- As early as February, I was surrounded by patchwork fields of brilliant colours that give the area from Ventimiglia to San Remo the name the Riviera of Flowers.
- Togneri, based in Culloden, specialises in traditional British patchwork in which geometric pieces of cloth are hand-sewn edge to edge to produce elaborate and complex designs.
- You can cut the squares into shapes for appliqués and secure the edges with an open zigzag stitch, or cut the squares into pieces and seam them into patchwork designs.
- Fred had stitched fine patchwork quilts that covered the beds and hung on the walls of his house.
- From the right-hand corner flag they pieced together a patchwork that stretched back across the field and allowed Pires to add the final flourish.
- These images were mere shreds of evidence, loosely stitched together like a patchwork quilt.
- Somewhere in there, I decided that fabric was not for throwing away and began creating patchwork designs, sometimes piecing quilts.
- A most remarkable lady Lily was a genius at needlework and made the most extraordinary patchwork quilts by hand sewing.
- For the girls, the colours are subtle with rainbow blocks, patchwork, topstitching, embroidery and prints in a variety of style.
- Simon's brands work more like a patchwork quilt - each piece delicately overlapping the next - than like a jigsaw puzzle.
1. 1.1 The craft of sewing in which small pieces of cloth in different designs, colors, or textures are sewn together.
  （由不同图案、颜色和质地的小块织物拼缝而成的）拼缝物，拼布
  specialists in quilting and patchwork
  缝被子和拼布手艺行家。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Queensland Quilters Inc. is a non-profit organisation, aimed at promoting the art and craft of patchwork and quilting.
  Unfortunately, after an accident, she had to give up her career, and she then devoted herself to embroidery, patchwork and quilting, taking City and Guilds courses parts I and II in both.
  Creative quilting, patchwork and appliqué commence at the end of January.
  I am also sampling the patchwork and quilting taster course during Adult Learners' Week.
  Crafts that will be taught glasswork, upholstery and patchwork, 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm.
  The craft of patchwork and quilting dates back to ancient times when the prime purpose was warmth and protection, today it is practised internationally and it is as varied and decorative as the individual desires.
  If you fancy trying patchwork and quilting, wine-tasting, flavours of the world, cooking for special diets or Basic IT Skills then let us know.
2. 1.2 A thing composed of many different elements so as to appear variegated.
  拼凑的东西；杂烩
  a patchwork of stone walls and green fields
  石墙和绿地拼成的景色。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Many of them are, in effect, patchworks made up from fragments of different dances.
  Including painted patchworks of color and other collaged materials, such as silver paper and billboard scraps, the gridded compositions are essentially geometric, yet decidedly improvisational and playful.
  And those strange patchworks of cultivated soil, potting sheds and pathways play a more vital role than most people might imagine in the cohesion of local communities, recreation, and environmental protection.
  At times the ocean breeze would steal snatches of their conversation and carry them to us, wrapping these patchwork pieces of their adult lives about us like a reassuring quilt.
  As the man assembles without distinction samples from different areas, each track feeds on combined atmospheres, creating intricate impressionist patchworks of intense beauty.
  More complex models with linked genetics and epistasis and more complex demography will likely show even more complex patchworks of maladaptation across landscapes.
  And if the characters she occupies are never more than tenuous patchworks, neither, her work insists, are we.
  As this happens, and political pressures build, we will apply small patchworks to the existing healthcare system, and we will do this over and over until we have a rickety edifice that is literally the worst of all possible worlds.
  Look, our whole beings and minds are made up of patchworks of memories and networks of triggers.
  Suburban patchworks of cover, such as small wooded areas and brush, combine with open areas to provide coyotes with good hunting grounds.
  The pieces emerge, not as verbatim stories, but as patchworks of tactile forms.
  Instead, the coding regions of the genes are composed of mosaics, or patchworks of stretches of similar or identical DNA sequences, some of which are highlighted in Fig 1.
  The site where space-age stadiums, rolling green lawns and a meandering brook are planned to appear is today a patchwork of ageing apartment blocks, small businesses, and dusty fields.
  It was not meant to cover a mass-casualty attack on ethnic, racial and religious patchworks such as London or New York City.
  Over my shoulder, mighty crags dwarf patchworks of barley fields.
  Two other gallery walls offered dense patchworks of light-hued paintings by Irish, alongside darker works scavenged from the Academy's collection.
  Ambon city divides into patchworks of guarded religious enclaves.
  Through its patchwork texture of interlocking stories, the text emulates this form of communal realism, and the novel becomes a kind of neighborhood.
  The effort is not all a loss, though, as successive pieces forge a springily malleable array of wiry patchworks that tug at and tease expectations.
  The result is an intriguing brew of thick textures jibing into a florid collection of sonic patchworks.
  Synonyms
  assortment, miscellany, mixture, melange, medley, blend, variety, mixed bag, mix, diversity, collection, selection, assemblage, combination, motley collection, pot-pourri, conglomeration, jumble, mess, confusion, mishmash, hotchpotch, hodgepodge, ragbag, pastiche, farrago, hash

词汇	patchwork
释义	Definition of patchwork in English: patchwork noun ˈpatʃwəːkˈpætʃˌwərk mass noun 1Needlework in which small pieces of cloth in different designs, colours, or textures are sewn together. （由不同图案、颜色和质地的小块织物拼缝而成的）拼缝物，拼布 a piece of patchwork 一件拼布手作。 as modifier a patchwork bedspread 一块拼布床罩。 Example sentencesExamples A small, brightly coloured patchwork ball made from pieces of multicoloured cloth. Somewhere in there, I decided that fabric was not for throwing away and began creating patchwork designs, sometimes piecing quilts. As early as February, I was surrounded by patchwork fields of brilliant colours that give the area from Ventimiglia to San Remo the name the Riviera of Flowers. From the right-hand corner flag they pieced together a patchwork that stretched back across the field and allowed Pires to add the final flourish. Learn how to create a cross between a quilt and a pillow using simple patchwork designs. A most remarkable lady Lily was a genius at needlework and made the most extraordinary patchwork quilts by hand sewing. Schools and community centres have joined together to produce a huge piece of textile art, inspired by the traditional Bengali patchwork cloth, the kantha. Togneri, based in Culloden, specialises in traditional British patchwork in which geometric pieces of cloth are hand-sewn edge to edge to produce elaborate and complex designs. You can cut the squares into shapes for appliqués and secure the edges with an open zigzag stitch, or cut the squares into pieces and seam them into patchwork designs. A 350-metre-long patchwork quilt made of 1,000 cloth pieces is carrying an urgent cultural message to the Chinese. Mrs Grey is, as I write, curled up on the floor of my study in a nest of patchwork pieces. Presumably it's a bit easier to staple together a jump-around party record from musical snippets found down the back of the sofa, but some of these patchwork pieces are surprisingly dark. Whilst historians are prone to talk of France prior to 1789 as a unified entity, it was in fact a patchwork quilt to which pieces were still being added in the eighteenth century. Take your large piece of fabric and patchwork square, put them right sides together and neatly sew three sides together leaving a 1/2-inch seam. Simon's brands work more like a patchwork quilt - each piece delicately overlapping the next - than like a jigsaw puzzle. The patterns lend themselves well to appliqué, quilting, patchwork, paint, texture, and collage. If nothing else, this is an honest reflection of the screenplay's patchwork texture, where unfortunately all the stitches show. Fred had stitched fine patchwork quilts that covered the beds and hung on the walls of his house. For the girls, the colours are subtle with rainbow blocks, patchwork, topstitching, embroidery and prints in a variety of style. These images were mere shreds of evidence, loosely stitched together like a patchwork quilt. 1.1 The craft of sewing in which small pieces of cloth in different designs, colours, or textures are sewn together. （由不同图案、颜色和质地的小块织物拼缝而成的）拼缝物，拼布 specialists in quilting and patchwork 缝被子和拼布手艺行家。 Example sentencesExamples Creative quilting, patchwork and appliqué commence at the end of January. Crafts that will be taught glasswork, upholstery and patchwork, 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm. Unfortunately, after an accident, she had to give up her career, and she then devoted herself to embroidery, patchwork and quilting, taking City and Guilds courses parts I and II in both. Queensland Quilters Inc. is a non-profit organisation, aimed at promoting the art and craft of patchwork and quilting. The craft of patchwork and quilting dates back to ancient times when the prime purpose was warmth and protection, today it is practised internationally and it is as varied and decorative as the individual desires. I am also sampling the patchwork and quilting taster course during Adult Learners' Week. If you fancy trying patchwork and quilting, wine-tasting, flavours of the world, cooking for special diets or Basic IT Skills then let us know. 1.2count noun A thing composed of many different elements so as to appear variegated. 拼凑的东西；杂烩 a patchwork of stone walls and green fields 石墙和绿地拼成的景色。 Example sentencesExamples More complex models with linked genetics and epistasis and more complex demography will likely show even more complex patchworks of maladaptation across landscapes. It was not meant to cover a mass-casualty attack on ethnic, racial and religious patchworks such as London or New York City. Many of them are, in effect, patchworks made up from fragments of different dances. At times the ocean breeze would steal snatches of their conversation and carry them to us, wrapping these patchwork pieces of their adult lives about us like a reassuring quilt. As this happens, and political pressures build, we will apply small patchworks to the existing healthcare system, and we will do this over and over until we have a rickety edifice that is literally the worst of all possible worlds. The effort is not all a loss, though, as successive pieces forge a springily malleable array of wiry patchworks that tug at and tease expectations. Including painted patchworks of color and other collaged materials, such as silver paper and billboard scraps, the gridded compositions are essentially geometric, yet decidedly improvisational and playful. The pieces emerge, not as verbatim stories, but as patchworks of tactile forms. Ambon city divides into patchworks of guarded religious enclaves. Suburban patchworks of cover, such as small wooded areas and brush, combine with open areas to provide coyotes with good hunting grounds. And those strange patchworks of cultivated soil, potting sheds and pathways play a more vital role than most people might imagine in the cohesion of local communities, recreation, and environmental protection. Over my shoulder, mighty crags dwarf patchworks of barley fields. Two other gallery walls offered dense patchworks of light-hued paintings by Irish, alongside darker works scavenged from the Academy's collection. And if the characters she occupies are never more than tenuous patchworks, neither, her work insists, are we. Instead, the coding regions of the genes are composed of mosaics, or patchworks of stretches of similar or identical DNA sequences, some of which are highlighted in Fig 1. As the man assembles without distinction samples from different areas, each track feeds on combined atmospheres, creating intricate impressionist patchworks of intense beauty. The result is an intriguing brew of thick textures jibing into a florid collection of sonic patchworks. The site where space-age stadiums, rolling green lawns and a meandering brook are planned to appear is today a patchwork of ageing apartment blocks, small businesses, and dusty fields. Look, our whole beings and minds are made up of patchworks of memories and networks of triggers. Through its patchwork texture of interlocking stories, the text emulates this form of communal realism, and the novel becomes a kind of neighborhood. Synonyms assortment, miscellany, mixture, melange, medley, blend, variety, mixed bag, mix, diversity, collection, selection, assemblage, combination, motley collection, pot-pourri, conglomeration, jumble, mess, confusion, mishmash, hotchpotch, hodgepodge, ragbag, pastiche, farrago, hash informal scissors-and-paste job rare gallimaufry, omnium gatherum, olio, salmagundi, macédoine Derivatives patchworked adjective I have to admit that seven hours of poring through patchworked PHP code after having worked through the night is not the best first step towards acquiring a healthy lifestyle. Example sentencesExamples Teaching sustainable building skills to help replace the fire-hazard corrugated zinc sheeting patchworked together into houses (without having to rely on the 10-year old unfulfilled government housing promises). The patchworked results are watchable, particularly Wayne's more versatile than usual performance, but unsatisfying. The Tamar Valley trail runs through landscape framed by distant mountains and patchworked with vine-braided fields, the river at their feet. Her hands are making tiny swimming motions in the air as they pull her avatar through the sidewalks rendered on the inside of her glasses, patchworked in realtime from same node transmissions which made night day for me. Because of the haphazard way events are patchworked together, it's nigh onto impossible to follow the flow of the season. So her childhood is patchworked with the wonder of new places, linked with a common thread of summers spent in Kerry, with her mother's people. Chris breezes in wearing a tall, stovepipe hat that is patchworked in about a hundred different colors and fabrics. A bright-blue piece of plastic for a door, newspaper-and-cardboard walls, patchworked plastic bags for waterproofing - and two ends open to the elements. Continuing with the arts and craft theme, the cloth is patchworked and contrasts pieced together in a fusion of bright and pastel shades. They both work in patterns and patchworked sequences. These made-up, swiped, or patchworked personalities become the vehicle for fiction's ethical work. On the broad streets where the German cobbles are patchworked with crusty commie asphalt and potholes, hundreds of nicked western BMWs, Mercedes and Fiats lurch and belch around ancient trams and trolleybuses. Compounding this, the editors have patchworked the images together as though they'd be uninvited from the wrap party if more than six consecutive frames from the same shot passed by, uninterrupted by scissors. The script also feels a bit patchworked together. They have stumbled through the postmodern junkyard, loaded together all of the synthetic throbs, hums, and moans they could find and patchworked them into one gorgeous mess. Definition of patchwork in US English: patchwork nounˈpaCHˌwərkˈpætʃˌwərk 1Needlework in which small pieces of cloth in different designs, colors, or textures are sewn together. （由不同图案、颜色和质地的小块织物拼缝而成的）拼缝物，拼布 a quilt of patchwork 一件拼布手作。 as modifier patchwork bell-bottoms Example sentencesExamples If nothing else, this is an honest reflection of the screenplay's patchwork texture, where unfortunately all the stitches show. Learn how to create a cross between a quilt and a pillow using simple patchwork designs. Take your large piece of fabric and patchwork square, put them right sides together and neatly sew three sides together leaving a 1/2-inch seam. Mrs Grey is, as I write, curled up on the floor of my study in a nest of patchwork pieces. Presumably it's a bit easier to staple together a jump-around party record from musical snippets found down the back of the sofa, but some of these patchwork pieces are surprisingly dark. Whilst historians are prone to talk of France prior to 1789 as a unified entity, it was in fact a patchwork quilt to which pieces were still being added in the eighteenth century. A 350-metre-long patchwork quilt made of 1,000 cloth pieces is carrying an urgent cultural message to the Chinese. A small, brightly coloured patchwork ball made from pieces of multicoloured cloth. The patterns lend themselves well to appliqué, quilting, patchwork, paint, texture, and collage. Schools and community centres have joined together to produce a huge piece of textile art, inspired by the traditional Bengali patchwork cloth, the kantha. As early as February, I was surrounded by patchwork fields of brilliant colours that give the area from Ventimiglia to San Remo the name the Riviera of Flowers. Togneri, based in Culloden, specialises in traditional British patchwork in which geometric pieces of cloth are hand-sewn edge to edge to produce elaborate and complex designs. You can cut the squares into shapes for appliqués and secure the edges with an open zigzag stitch, or cut the squares into pieces and seam them into patchwork designs. Fred had stitched fine patchwork quilts that covered the beds and hung on the walls of his house. From the right-hand corner flag they pieced together a patchwork that stretched back across the field and allowed Pires to add the final flourish. These images were mere shreds of evidence, loosely stitched together like a patchwork quilt. Somewhere in there, I decided that fabric was not for throwing away and began creating patchwork designs, sometimes piecing quilts. A most remarkable lady Lily was a genius at needlework and made the most extraordinary patchwork quilts by hand sewing. For the girls, the colours are subtle with rainbow blocks, patchwork, topstitching, embroidery and prints in a variety of style. Simon's brands work more like a patchwork quilt - each piece delicately overlapping the next - than like a jigsaw puzzle. 1.1 The craft of sewing in which small pieces of cloth in different designs, colors, or textures are sewn together. （由不同图案、颜色和质地的小块织物拼缝而成的）拼缝物，拼布 specialists in quilting and patchwork 缝被子和拼布手艺行家。 Example sentencesExamples Queensland Quilters Inc. is a non-profit organisation, aimed at promoting the art and craft of patchwork and quilting. Unfortunately, after an accident, she had to give up her career, and she then devoted herself to embroidery, patchwork and quilting, taking City and Guilds courses parts I and II in both. Creative quilting, patchwork and appliqué commence at the end of January. I am also sampling the patchwork and quilting taster course during Adult Learners' Week. Crafts that will be taught glasswork, upholstery and patchwork, 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm. The craft of patchwork and quilting dates back to ancient times when the prime purpose was warmth and protection, today it is practised internationally and it is as varied and decorative as the individual desires. If you fancy trying patchwork and quilting, wine-tasting, flavours of the world, cooking for special diets or Basic IT Skills then let us know. 1.2 A thing composed of many different elements so as to appear variegated. 拼凑的东西；杂烩 a patchwork of stone walls and green fields 石墙和绿地拼成的景色。 Example sentencesExamples Many of them are, in effect, patchworks made up from fragments of different dances. Including painted patchworks of color and other collaged materials, such as silver paper and billboard scraps, the gridded compositions are essentially geometric, yet decidedly improvisational and playful. And those strange patchworks of cultivated soil, potting sheds and pathways play a more vital role than most people might imagine in the cohesion of local communities, recreation, and environmental protection. At times the ocean breeze would steal snatches of their conversation and carry them to us, wrapping these patchwork pieces of their adult lives about us like a reassuring quilt. As the man assembles without distinction samples from different areas, each track feeds on combined atmospheres, creating intricate impressionist patchworks of intense beauty. More complex models with linked genetics and epistasis and more complex demography will likely show even more complex patchworks of maladaptation across landscapes. And if the characters she occupies are never more than tenuous patchworks, neither, her work insists, are we. As this happens, and political pressures build, we will apply small patchworks to the existing healthcare system, and we will do this over and over until we have a rickety edifice that is literally the worst of all possible worlds. Look, our whole beings and minds are made up of patchworks of memories and networks of triggers. Suburban patchworks of cover, such as small wooded areas and brush, combine with open areas to provide coyotes with good hunting grounds. The pieces emerge, not as verbatim stories, but as patchworks of tactile forms. Instead, the coding regions of the genes are composed of mosaics, or patchworks of stretches of similar or identical DNA sequences, some of which are highlighted in Fig 1. The site where space-age stadiums, rolling green lawns and a meandering brook are planned to appear is today a patchwork of ageing apartment blocks, small businesses, and dusty fields. It was not meant to cover a mass-casualty attack on ethnic, racial and religious patchworks such as London or New York City. Over my shoulder, mighty crags dwarf patchworks of barley fields. Two other gallery walls offered dense patchworks of light-hued paintings by Irish, alongside darker works scavenged from the Academy's collection. Ambon city divides into patchworks of guarded religious enclaves. Through its patchwork texture of interlocking stories, the text emulates this form of communal realism, and the novel becomes a kind of neighborhood. The effort is not all a loss, though, as successive pieces forge a springily malleable array of wiry patchworks that tug at and tease expectations. The result is an intriguing brew of thick textures jibing into a florid collection of sonic patchworks. 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