Preposition: of

• pasture: Small scale patchwork of improved pasture with scrub encroachment.

• meadow: The valley, which was once farmed, is a patchwork of meadows and hedges, linked by a network of paths.

• habitat: The seabed environment may consist of a patchwork of discrete habitats.

• woodland: Distant views are a patchwork of woodland and pasture.

• field: You're sitting at the edge of the plane's open doorway, looking out over the patchwork of fields below.

• color: It will soon be in flower with its distinctive bright yellow petals making a patchwork of color in the countryside.

Converse of object

• replace: We will replace this patchwork with a single scheme with a single board with harmonized administrative arrangements.

• create: The aim was to create a patchwork of layers without adjoining gaps.

• form: Fields form an even, geometric patchwork over the drumlins, becoming irregular in shape on the flatter land in between.

• make: Cloud Atlas is like a literary patchwork made of almost random bits of paintings from the Tate Modern.

Adjective modifier

• rich: A rich patchwork of classic Fela sounds that make the feet dance but with an added gritty something.

• existing: We need to comply with the underlying spirit of privacy and justice in the existing unsatisfactory patchwork of legislation.

• current: The current patchwork of national systems for patenting innovations is also an issue, Vanhanen said.

Modifies a noun

• quilt: Music covered Hitchin like a patchwork quilt over the weekend.

• elephant: Elmer the patchwork elephant has a busy day ahead of him.

• field: Here you can still find that unique pattern of patchwork fields, once common across much of England.

• landscape: The patchwork landscape is mostly heather clad grouse moor with ancient woods and forestry plantations.

• pattern: Patchwork patterns were drawn by visitors, from around the museum, to make their own mark on a huge garment.

• policy: A panacea care needs to quot patchwork policies had medicare part.

Noun used with modifier

• quot: Quot we still analysis of foreign-born quot patchwork policies.