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.