quilt

Through these individual stories, "Citizen Nation" constructs a quilt of resilience and hope, even in painful moments.

Many of the native plants are in their summer dormancy now, but the garden is still a quilt of greens in every shade, along with native roses and non-natives like lavender and lion’s tail for splashes of color.

The New York Times decided that Smith & Dench "sink into their roles as comfortably as house cats burrowing into a down quilt on a windswept, rainy night".

Ms Gould says she spends up to 60% of her time trying to figure out where to get funding from, describing the organisation’s financing as “a patchwork quilt”.

Another look around his office prompted a thought: “My favorite farewell gift — I wish I could show it to you because it’s really quite something to see — is a quilt.”