The phrase "as a patchwork" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is made up of various different elements or parts, often in a disorganized or haphazard way.
Example: "The final report was put together as a patchwork of contributions from different team members, each with their own style and perspective."
Alternatives: "like a mosaic" or "in a fragmented manner".
That fact gets lost in the common indictment of state and local immigration measures as a "patchwork".
The mind as a patchwork of parts, surprisingly effective, but to an extent carelessly assembled by evolution.
Long Island has developed as a patchwork of regulations and incentives, rules and restrictions that reflect local needs rather than regional concerns.
"I try to assemble the year 1947 into a splintered whole," Åsbrink writes in this gripping history, formed as a patchwork of significant events.
That meant neckties appliqued on a tailored jacket, plaid pockets or squares of Arran-cabled knitting as a patchwork on a cream coat.
Dale Farm resident Kathleen McCarthy said: "This will leave Dale Farm as a patchwork of concrete and fences, not the greenbelt the council are claiming it will be.
Pretty much the same as my life now, just as much a patchwork of extremes and contrasts, but magnified.
Yet even though about $3.3 billion of federal taxpayer money has been spent here on the cash grant program known as the Road Home, New Orleans on the third anniversary of the hurricane remains almost as much of a patchwork as it did last year, before most of the money was spent.
That has been more true of Anglo-British nationalism than we like to think: it is as much a patchwork of animosity, embroidered history and invented tradition as any other.
The original photographs, some of which are here in a display case, are fascinating as historical documents, but when combined as reproductions in a patchwork collage they don't really amount to much.
Films by the artist are on view, as is a patchwork quilt.
