Each piece of the quilt contains an image (with enumeration) having several characteristics. Each characteristic is shared by a set of associated images sharing a corner (see Table 3 below). So, the corner pieces of the quilt match 1 characteristic, edges 2, and interiors 4. Once the quilt is assembled, it becomes a shikaku puzzle ‐‐ some images are annotated with a number, representing the image count within the block. Other images are annotated with letters A‐H: one letter per block. Indexing block size into that block's lettered image's name gives the final answer CORDLESS.
Table 1: Solution
| A. MCNugget Buddy -- 2 | Fruit Stripe Zebra | Banded Krait -- 4 | Platypus | Orohippus | G. HorSe |
| Fruit Pie the Magician | Tony the Tiger -- 12 | Wally Wasp | Blue-Ringed Octopus | Hippocampus | Centaur |
| Billy the Kid | Louie the Lilac (played by Milton Berle) | Charlotte A Cavatica (played by Debbie Reynolds) | D. Japanese SpiDer Crab | Suijin | Isis |
| E. JuLiet Prowse | Sid Caesar (as The General) -- 3 | Nicholas Hammond (spiderman) | Spider-Man (Piloting Leopardon) -- 4 | B. ToyOtama- Hime | Zeus (as bull) -- 3 |
| H. BrutuS | Henry Prince | Gao Changgong (Romance of 3 Kingdoms video game) | Galactus (Marvel vs. Capcom 3) | Optimus Prime | C. SiRius Black (in Azkaban Prison) |
| Sylvia Plath | Gaetan, Count of Girgenti -- 6 | Prince of Persia | F. HEadcrab | Mull -- 2 | Edmond Dantes |
Table 2: Shikaku layout (guaranteed unique by http://shikakuroom.com/)
| 2 | 4 | ||||
| 12 | |||||
| 3 | 4 | 3 | |||
| 6 | 2 |
Table 3: Association sets
| Corners | AB | BC | CD | DE | EF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | cartoon mascots | striped creatures | venomous creatures | "___pus" names | equines |
| 23 | "X the Y" names | alliterative names | >4 legged creatures | aquatic creatures | hybrids |
| 34 | Muppet Show guests | Love Boat guests | spiders | Japanese | gods |
| 45 | Shakespearean names | generals | masked figures | giant robots and monsters | shapeshifters |
| 56 | suicides | princes | video game characters | aliens | prisoners |