patchwork

Needlework consisting of varicolored patches of material sewn together, as in a quilt.

Something made of miscellaneous or incongruous parts or elements.

Work composed of pieces of various colors or figures sewed together, especially a combination of many small pieces of stuff, sewed together edge to edge, to form a curtain, bedspread, or the like.

Work composed of pieces clumsily put together; anything formed of ill-assorted parts.

Work composed of pieces sewed together, esp. pieces of various colors and figures; hence, anything put together of incongruous or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly or clumsily composed; a thing patched up.

A work, such as a blanket, composed of many different colors and shapes, sewn together to make an interesting whole.

Any kind of creation that utilizes many different aspects to create one, whole piece.

To create a patchwork from pieces of fabric

To assemble from a variety of sources; to cobble together

a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas