This seemed an excellent suggestion and at once Dr.Pipt set to work to make a new batch of his magic powder.

He has been at it a long, long while, and so I have had plenty of time to make the girl.

Yet that task was not so easy as you may suppose.

At first I couldn't think what to make her of, but finally in searching through a chest I came across an old patchwork quilt, which my grandmother once made when she was young." "What is a patchwork quilt ?" asked Ojo.
"A bed-quilt made of patches of different kinds and colors of cloth, all neatly sewed together.

The patches are of all shapes and sizes, so a patchwork quilt is a very pretty and gorgeous thing to look at.
Sometimes it is called a 'crazy-quilt,' because the patches and colors are so mixed up.