How To Use Patchwork In A Sentence
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Although efforts to divert single-use batteries from the waste stream are growing, only a patchwork of regulations currently exists, depending on where you live.
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The text forms a patchwork quilt of anecdotes that weave together domesticity and philosophy.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It might be compared with the modern Arnhem Land maps of the same area that I tried to find later, but which were merely a patchwork of uranium leases.
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In the wake of the Napoleonic wars Italy was divided into a patchwork of kingdoms and duchies.
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The members wore colourful headscarves and patchwork jackets and were carrying rucksacks and canvas bags.
Times, Sunday Times
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The plan of the sanctuary complex, now a dignified patchwork of ruins, is quintessentially Syrian, with a small central temple surrounded by an expansive precinct known as the temenos .
Temple of the 'Bride of the Desert'
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They carried candles and wore masks: an eggshell face with antlers; a patchwork harlequin; a Casanova; a Scaramouch.
The Faculty Club
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This unmanly dread of simplicity, and of what is called "tautology," gives rise to a patchwork made up of scraps of poetic quotations, unmeaning periphrases, and would-be humorous circumlocutions, -- a style of all styles perhaps the most objectionable and offensive, which may be known and avoided by the name of _Fine Writing_.
How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
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In addition, Lee designers express the theme with ‘unfinished design’ which includes handicraft style, oblique neckline and patchwork.
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This complex patchwork protection throws up challenges.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her whole time was spent in making patchwork quilts with knitting-needles that were an arshin [An ell.] long.
Poor Folk
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Schools and community centres have joined together to produce a huge piece of textile art, inspired by the traditional Bengali patchwork cloth, the kantha.
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That means 93 percent of them are rekeying information, faxing documents, and building electronic patchwork bridges to fill orders.
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The countryside was a gentle patchwork of fields and hedgerows, still green from the rains three months before.
Times, Sunday Times
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The exhibition featured bobbin lace, patchwork and quilting, cross stitch, canvas work embroidery, macramé, and even miniature furniture.
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As the man assembles without distinction samples from different areas, each track feeds on combined atmospheres, creating intricate impressionist patchworks of intense beauty.
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Below us the patchwork of fields stretched to the bleaker Pennines.
Times, Sunday Times
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He penned a large chunk of the epic The Lord of the Rings here, inspired by the rural patchwork of hedges, meadows and woodlands rolling down to the lazy River Ribble.
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But the performance is as safe and comforting as a patchwork quilt.
Times, Sunday Times
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The area consists of a flat patchwork of marshes in the Gangetic plain, artificially created in the 1850s and maintained ever since by a system of canals, sluices and dykes.
Keoladeo (Bharatpur) National Park, India
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I glanced at her ensemble, which consisted of a long patchwork skirt and a long swishy sort of top.
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In a direct swipe at his brother, Ed, who used a Guardian article on Monday to lambast Nick Clegg for selling out Liberal principles, the shadow foreign secretary will criticise what he calls a patchwork approach to building electoral support.
David Miliband takes 'comfort zone' swipe at Ed in Labour leadership fight
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A self-described "Missoni junkie," Mr. Jones lauded the family for their designs characterized by a "kaleidoscope of bold hues, zigzags, stripes, waves, flames, geometric patchworks and floral jacquards.
Mary Hall: The Rodeo Walk of Style Welcomes Iman and Missoni
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On display will be a variety of patchwork and quilting including the earliest exhibit made by Martha Jackson in Westmorland in 1790.
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For the girls, the colours are subtle with rainbow blocks, patchwork, topstitching, embroidery and prints in a variety of style.
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His residence, built of local stone and timber, nestled into one of the hills and looked out across a valley patchworked with fields and pastures.
Command Decision
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While there are a variety of dress materials such as chikan embroidery from Lucknow, patchwork from Jammu and Nagercoil, paintings occupy a dominant place in the expo.
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A patchwork or quilt like assemblance of world order will be the more fufilling chioce for all of us.
Think Progress » Rep. Tancredo: Bush Wants To Merge U.S. With Mexico and Canada
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Jackets and pullovers highlighted with golden embroidery and patchwork in yellow gold brought out the bling element.
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IN a decidedly flaky year for new music, please welcome this breathtaking patchwork quilt of songs.
The Sun
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Or in autumn when purple moorland takes on a blanket of golden patchwork.
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Its surfaces are covered with a checkered, machine-loomed flannel, a subtle, polychromatic patchwork of nocturnal blue, heather and black that enlivens the sculpture's truncated planes and the quiet space it occupies.
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The album features a vast array of sonic collages, bringing together disjointed excerpts of conversations and found sounds over a patchwork of musical elements.
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Featuring a variety of household goods at affordable prices, the high end range includes complex patchwork and embroidered linen.
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After all, it was inspiration from the patchwork quilts in 1952 which had proved the original impetus for the whole company.
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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.
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Mrs Grey is, as I write, curled up on the floor of my study in a nest of patchwork pieces.
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A free-form patchwork of green stretched from under my nose to tall boxwood hedges on the verge of a triangular lot.
MOON PASSAGE
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It is a patchwork of Clan, tribal loyalties, religious zealotry, appallingly poor, indemicly corrupt politician, power mad factionally torn military and a corporate sector which is (not surprisingy greedy and in for their chop) all of which are in varing degrees fractiousness and discontentedness.
Pakistan "Emergency" Ban of Constitution, Independent Media-- A Media Emergency In USA Too
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A patchwork of state regulations persist in his wake, frustrating the efforts of lawyers wishing to shill for themselves on TV.
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A patchwork of conflicting laws will do nothing to improve the ease of use of e-mail communications.
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His house, a rambling patchwork of add-ons and original rooms, is a museum of his disjointed creativity.
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Some bits I have passing familiarity with do not have organised religion - lots of localised deities, yes, but no festivals that I'd be certain of - while others are patchworked this religion and its festivals are predominant _here_, in the next village over a different calendar will be kept, and _that_ subgroup is celebrating something else entirely and has a different day of rest.
A year of festivities
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When she arrives, she is horrified by my patchwork of sample colours.
Times, Sunday Times
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Learn how to create a cross between a quilt and a pillow using simple patchwork designs.
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Now there is a patchwork of state legislation enacted to deal with the legal and ethical issues raised by genetic information.
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The McCain-Palin administration will replace an outdated, patchwork quilt of regulatory oversight and bring transparency and accountability to Wall Street.
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It was not meant to cover a mass-casualty attack on ethnic, racial and religious patchworks such as London or New York City.
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The warm, glowing drone of Oliveros' accordion breathes its way through a patchwork of chimes and the gentle fluting of the whistlebuoys.
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Butter making, crochet, patchwork quilts, the traditional spinning wheel and a mobile forge are but a few of the items and sideshows that will feature at the rally.
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A most remarkable lady Lily was a genius at needlework and made the most extraordinary patchwork quilts by hand sewing.
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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.
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Fred had stitched fine patchwork quilts that covered the beds and hung on the walls of his house.
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Larger but more coloristically restrained, a major work from 2000 also contains a patchwork of snapshots that may or may not have any personal meaning for the artist.
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There's an essay or series of linked essays patchworked in my mind that involve object and information persistence, perishability, pertinence, mutability, etc., which involve multiple dimensions....
Making Light: Amazon & Macmillan
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The soft acid rain that has fallen this summer has the countryside a veritable patchwork quilt of colour.
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Crafts that will be taught glasswork, upholstery and patchwork, 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm.
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Ambon city divides into patchworks of guarded religious enclaves.
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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.
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There is also a big emphasis on textiles: beds are layered with luxury throws including a patchwork quilt.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another distinct feature of the house is the patchwork motif.
Times, Sunday Times
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The text forms a patchwork quilt of anecdotes that weave together domesticity and philosophy.
The Times Literary Supplement
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One gets from this image a similar ‘patchwork’ promise of extended sadness, of mixed dreams realized in fragments with an earthy vigorous humor.
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Larger but more coloristically restrained, a major work from 2000 also contains a patchwork of snapshots that may or may not have any personal meaning for the artist.
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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.
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The primary rooms had festoons of "blockwork," and under an awning made from a bright patchwork quilt, made by them, hung their dainty pockets, tidies, scarfs, etc., quaintly outlined in bright needlework.
The American Missionary — Volume 48, No. 7, July, 1894
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From the plane, the landscape was just a patchwork of fields.
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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.
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The exhibition featured bobbin lace, patchwork and quilting, cross stitch, canvas work embroidery, macramé, and even miniature furniture.
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When the drawing is complete, the students begin the coloring of Elmer's patchwork body with bright colorful markers.
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Queensland Quilters Inc. is a non-profit organisation, aimed at promoting the art and craft of patchwork and quilting.
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When the drawing is complete, the students begin the coloring of Elmer's patchwork body with bright colorful markers.
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The bed had a patchwork quilt on it.
CHARMED LIFE
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The region is a virtual patchwork of repressive rules and restrictions -- variously dubbed national-security laws, antisubversive laws or internal-security acts -- which give leaders wide powers to tighten the screws in the service of "stability and order.
Opinion: Political Freedom's Price
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The bill ensconces a disastrously wasteful system - or patchwork of systems - in law.
Health Care Relief In 2013 Giving Dems Heartburn
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The creative, well-crafted articles chosen may include not only bestsellers, such as patchwork vests and embellished sweatshirts, but also local artists' quilts and pillows appliquéd with the town's logo.
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We saw details including metal fasteners, buckles, sequins and embroidered patchwork.
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IN a decidedly flaky year for new music, please welcome this breathtaking patchwork quilt of songs.
The Sun
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But the performance is as safe and comforting as a patchwork quilt.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Annie Evett has just spent a gruelling (for her) few days sorting out and chucking patchwork scraps and oddments of materials from garments she made more than 20 years ago.
Scrap box inspiration for characters « Write Anything
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Cover that buffet table with an antique patchwork quilt, checkered tablecloth or even canvas potato sacks.
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The 18 tracks of psychedelic pop, disco grooves and film snips may be a patchwork quilt of musical oddities, but one that is seamless.
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There's an essay or series of linked essays patchworked in my mind that involve object and information persistence, perishability, pertinence, mutability, etc., which involve multiple dimensions....
Making Light: Amazon & Macmillan
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It then agreed the purchase of further plots from the local government to fill in the patchwork quilt of land and bring the total acreage to 75,000.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mountain-dwelling Hani women in patchwork costumes sell beaded headdresses and bags.
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This combination means that the colourful patchwork created by the budding of different colour forms of jewel anemones, for instance, can be fully appreciated.
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Antique beads and braiding were sown on to jersey tops and distressed lace was used to create a patchwork feel on dresses.
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Crisp geometric patterns on a patchwork quilt will prove eye-catching in any setting.
Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings
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This patchwork of fields, hedgerows and pockets of woodland in Dorset is often partly concealed beneath a terrific dawn mist.
Times, Sunday Times
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Over my shoulder, mighty crags dwarf patchworks of barley fields.
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The middle of the stadium will be transformed into a patchwork of fields made of real soil, real grass and real hedges.
Times, Sunday Times
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At first this patchwork appeared too disjointed, yet Brand soon showed ingenuity in bending his themes to different purposes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The familiar patchwork emerges, its margins decorated in autumn by the red and golden flare of the leaves.
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As far as the collector is concerned, his collection is never complete; for let him discover just a single piece missing, and everything he’s collected remains a patchwork, which is what things are for the allegorist from the beginning.
2009 December 10 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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A patchwork of Latin American musical styles, conjunto music is as varied as the lands from which it comes.
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The garden reminds me of the patchwork quilt I inherited.
A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
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Her slightly loopy patchworked circles do not overlap or entwine.
The Queen of the 'Neo-Hillbilly' Quilt
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The Image of Egypt exhibition features an array of patchwork and embroidery depicting Egypt, pharaohs and pyramids.
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Creative quilting, patchwork and appliqué commence at the end of January.
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Why! suppose I possessed a theatrical wardrobe, would you venture to argue from that that I am in the frequent habit of wearing the trailing robes of tragedy, the saffron cloak of the mimic dance, or the patchwork suit of the harlequinade?
The Defense
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Land used for grazing sheep and cattle together with ploughed arable land combine to form a patchwork of field colours and textures.
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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.
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A stool with a tripod iron foot and a patchwork wooden seat comes from a garment factory.
Times, Sunday Times
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The road is a nightmare and a potential death trap with vehicles skidding on the patchwork surface.
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Of course, CSAs are just one piece in a patchwork of solutions to reknit regional foodsheds, but more importantly they exemplify the value of community that undergirds a climate-friendly food system.
Anna Lappe: 3 Pillars of a Food Revolution
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Suburban patchworks of cover, such as small wooded areas and brush, combine with open areas to provide coyotes with good hunting grounds.
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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.
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As we shouldered our daypacks, the sun broke through a thin haze of clouds, and melting snow soon revealed a patchwork of meadow and forest lying in gentle folds before us.
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'honeycombed' cotton things we were forced to use unless we were going to be frankly 'poor' and cover our beds with plain patchwork, made up hurriedly and quilted in simple 'fans' in plebeian squares, as poor folk who haven't time for elegant stitches did theirs.
Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them
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Or in autumn when purple moorland takes on a blanket of golden patchwork.
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In place at present is a truly hopeless patchwork of home carers, minders, state nurseries, private nurseries, nannies and the like.
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Needless to say, the cumulative effect of this patchwork approach to narrative is both disconcerting and slightly depressing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pezzo geniale di patchwork digitale, in bassa fedeltà, ma ad alto rendimento.
No Fat Clips!!! : Sour – Hibi no neiro
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Even the raffish collection of outsiders that have washed up there seem part of the patchwork.
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For centuries, quilting and patchwork have been popular needlecrafts.
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Original dark wood panelling and elaborate cornicing are complemented by a patchwork-style velvet bedspread - an original commission by artist Jo Stewart.
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And if the cover art foreshadows the style of this gargantuan cotton-candy novel, the title poised between horse and skyline suggests the allusive, striving nature of the themes to come: Shakespeare's romance of resurrection will be only the most conspicuous swatch in a patchwork of Renaissance fairy tale, Victorian saga, Vonnegutian fable, and dreamy surrealism in the Latin American manner.
Small Expectations
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Long strips of colour zigzag across the landscape like a patchwork quilt, reds and yellows mingling with purples, pinks and lilacs.
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Crisp geometric patterns on a patchwork quilt will prove eye-catching in any setting.
Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings
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Continuing with the arts and craft theme, the cloth is patchworked and contrasts pieced together in a fusion of bright and pastel shades.
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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.
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The tattoos became a kind of patchwork quilt, and in a way they join together to tell their own stories of my funny, weird little life.
Times, Sunday Times
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Around us is a patchwork of eskers sand and gravel dunes deposited by ancient rivers during the last ice age, hummocks, bogs and muskeg. Stands of dwarf willow thicken the banks of the river in places, and trees scattered singly or in small groves cover some small hill or bluff in no discernible pattern.
M. Sanjayan: Thelon Expedition: The Country
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The two sisters who founded the label in 2005, Laura and Kate Mulleavy, created a new vision of gentle, feminine beauty, in a palette based on the colours of earth and sky, and a homespun patchwork of fabrics such as crinkled silk, linen, and wool gauze.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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The Loire valley is a perfect place for family cycle rides thanks to its flat patchwork of farmland, vineyards and woods.
Times, Sunday Times
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On it, curled up on a patchwork quilt, was an elderly crone in the foetal position.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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Because of the haphazard way events are patchworked together, it's nigh onto impossible to follow the flow of the season.
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On display will be a variety of patchwork and quilting including the earliest exhibit made by Martha Jackson in Westmorland in 1790.
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His eyes followed the ever changing pin sized patchwork as he considered how small they were from this great height ... how impersonal ... how unaware.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum
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He is particularly proud of the bathroom, a patchwork of bright concrete tiles sourced from all over Brazil.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many quilters use patchwork to create wall hangings.
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Somewhere in there, I decided that fabric was not for throwing away and began creating patchwork designs, sometimes piecing quilts.
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Etsy seller Takeahalliday's "Human Anatomy Science Patchwork T-Shirt" uses "different colored and textured fabric used in patchwork to represent the different human organs and rib cage.
Boing Boing
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Crisp geometric patterns on a patchwork quilt will prove eye-catching in any setting.
Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings
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The resulting crystals are riddled with flaws: they are really a patchwork of tiny crystallites welded together with their atomic lattices tilted at different angles.
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To quote the American biologist Colin Pittendrigh, the whole thing is nothing but a ‘patchwork of makeshifts pieced together, as it were, from what was available when opportunity knocked, and accepted in the hindsight, not the foresight, of natural selection’.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
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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.
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Women or tailors give Baye Falls scraps of fabric to sew together into colorful patchwork clothing.
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None of this makes for a thrilling contest; and the nature of the seat, a patchwork of farming areas and dormitory villages, hardly facilitates intense electioneering.
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There is also a big emphasis on textiles: beds are layered with luxury throws including a patchwork quilt.
Times, Sunday Times
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The emergency room is an urgently adrenalized place where everybody fights to find patchwork solutions to problems, leaving the long-term consequences for the patients to another day.
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This set of patchwork heart sachets from CraftyStylish is likely more appropriate for a confident seamster than for a newbie, but seriously?
DIY Valentine: Oodles of Online Tutes for Your Crafty, Creative Sweeties
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So snap up this versatile patchwork clutch bag now.
The Sun
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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.
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The countryside was a gentle patchwork of fields and hedgerows, still green from the rains three months before.
Times, Sunday Times
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So snap up this versatile patchwork clutch bag now.
The Sun
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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.
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The result is an incongruous lush patchwork of fields containing tomatoes, cherries, apples and corn, all surrounded by desert.
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Beetle grubs can turn a fine looking lawn into a patchwork quilt of yellow spots.
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Barack Obama wants the Federal Reserve to have more authority over regulating financial insitutions, reducing what he calls the patchwork of regulatory authorities that contributed to this crisis.
Pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
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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).
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Along the way, it chronicles in patchwork form the innovative exploits and unintended consequences of a "secret and deniable" CIA-offshoot group assembled "to allow deep-cover officers to go where they couldn't go, and do what they couldn't do" under public scrutiny.
Far-Flung Secret Ops, Shadowy Local Conspiracies
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For those, in particular, who like a musical experimentation patchworked from many different feels, Beast is a must-listen.
Buzzine » Beast
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Craftwork made by patchworking wheat straw requires only simple manual labour.
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A patchwork of fields stretched away far below.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the first shape is a series of rough-hewed approximations, the second is a shiny patchwork of beautifully stitched leather cut-outs.
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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.
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Crisp geometric patterns on a patchwork quilt will prove eye-catching in any setting.
Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings
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The low mountains were a patchwork of green and brown.
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In the past, local hotlines have to the best of their ability provided only a patchwork quilt of assistance.
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The old lady sat in the corner doing patchwork.
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For we know that our patchwork heritage a strength, a weakness.
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He was clothed with tatters of old ships 'canvas and old sea-cloth, and this extraordinary patchwork was all held together by a system of the most various and incongruous fastenings, brass buttons, bits of stick, and loops of tarry gaskin.
Treasure Island
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The first results of these experiments can be viewed now to the east of the Old Continent: some areas which are patchworks of flat sand islands in the “tropics”, barren snowland and some more varied landscapes too.
The SL Economy in Review – 2006 January - SLOG
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But the performance is as safe and comforting as a patchwork quilt.
Times, Sunday Times
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The trend seems to be following this season's current direction, which leans toward a more casual and informal style, with biker jackets, for instance, patchwork shirts in printed silk twill and narrow trousers.
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Crisp geometric patterns on a patchwork quilt will prove eye-catching in any setting.
Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings
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At the moment many of them are sporting tufty, patchwork haircuts.
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He savages Street Legal, dismisses Oh Mercy as "airless", and rather overrates, in my opinion, the patchwork quilt of quotations that is Love and Theft.
Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010 by Greil Marcus – review
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These made-up, swiped, or patchworked personalities become the vehicle for fiction's ethical work.
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The Justices filed a patchwork of different opinions and dissents.
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A stool with a tripod iron foot and a patchwork wooden seat comes from a garment factory.
Times, Sunday Times
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Needless to say, the cumulative effect of this patchwork approach to narrative is both disconcerting and slightly depressing.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Yet the details of the ESM remain sketchy and there is a cost to delay: as our foreign correspondents discovered when they asked some of the eurozone's voters last week what they thought of the patchwork of bailouts, cutbacks and frantic summitry.
Eurozone's citizens split amid battle to stop debt crisis spreading
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Twenty minutes later, the great kasbah appeared, set in a patchwork of irrigated fields and surrounded by the clustered houses of the village.
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I sometimes think she is a sort of living phenomenon intended to represent all the passions -- a genuine Pandora's box -- a piece of patchwork made up of the odds and ends of all animals in creation -- a sort of menagerie in herself, where the dove and the kite, the serpent and the sparrow, the gilded butterfly and the unsightly bat, the gluttonous sloth and the air-feeding chamelion, are all exhibited.
Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p.
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Craftspersons in the region now turn out an impressive range of merchandise, which includes salwar kameez, shawls, dupattas, patchwork quilts, stuffed toys, purses and stylish footwear.
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He called the patchwork of transportation modes he used this week—driving, taking the PATH train and riding on NJ Transit—a lesson in "creative commuting.
A Commuter's Week to Forget
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The old lady sat in the corner doing patchwork.
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The dusty road led us into a patchwork of fields divided by irrigation channels and dotted with stone compounds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Women in striking patchwork dresses of red, yellow, green and blue picked cotton with young boys, and by a village stream shaded by pollard willows a small girl led an enormous cow on a rope.
Wildwood
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Fred had stitched fine patchwork quilts that covered the beds and hung on the walls of his house.
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The script also feels a bit patchworked together.
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I am also sampling the patchwork and quilting taster course during Adult Learners' Week.
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They both work in patterns and patchworked sequences.
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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.
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The chair consists of patches as in a patchwork quilt, which gives them a somewhat home-made character, without allowing this to compromise their quality.
The Memory Armchair by Ole Jensen
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Normal lives are a patchwork of work, leisure, holidays, weddings, and other life events.
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When the clouds lift, you can see a patchwork of clearcuts and roads carved into the slopes.
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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.
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From up here the rolling slope of yellow green grasses looks like an untouched prairie, patchworked with snowberry and chokecherry and elderberry, the way it must have looked when the Blackstocks grazed their cattle or the Indians traded skins and beads, or even a time before any human had seen this land.
Healer
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I also went over to Patchwork on Central Park yesterday and picked up some green fabric ready for the next bunch of pear pincushions.
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The town is a patchwork of houses and public buildings interspersed with allotments where fruit and vegetables are grown.
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You can make a patchwork quilt from oddments of silk and cotton.
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The patterns lend themselves well to appliqué, quilting, patchwork, paint, texture, and collage.
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These fabrics being pre-shrunk and pre-washed, do not require any sort of processing once the patchwork stitching is complete.
SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1233
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The Scottish experience in the past half-century has been a patchwork of success, spurned opportunities and downright failure.
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In addition, the national recycling map is an absurd patchwork of more than 300 often incompatible systems.
Times, Sunday Times
