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Gingham Background Tutorial Open a new image size 10 X 10, white. Set your colors to these: Foreground = RGB 247, 143, 167 Use your zoom tool 
Now make your second square box size 5 at the coordinates of 5, 0 and flood fill with your background color. Your image should look like this: Make your third square box size 5 at the coordinates of 0, 5. There's no need to fill the other box in as I'm keeping it white so your image should now look like this: Now you can use your zoom tool Now looks are very deceiving. You're probably thinking it's way too small to do much. So let's test it out. Open up a new image size 200 X 200 and flood fill it with your new pattern. It should look like this: 
Have fun and experiment a little. You can create all different gingham backgrounds by using different colors. 
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to make it at least 4 times larger so you can see what you're working on. (All my images will appear larger because I captured them while in zoom mode.) Use your square selection tool to draw a square box size 5 at the coordinates of 0, 0 and flood fill with your foreground color like this: