Stitched Checkered Background

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Step 1. Choose two colors you want your background to consist of. One a light color and one a darker color. I will be using these colors:

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Step 2. Open two new transparent images with these settings: 

Step 3. Click on your "Flood Fill" tool and flood fill one of the new images with your light color.

Step 4. Click on the second new image you opened and flood fill with the darker color.

Step 5. Now open another new image with these settings:

Step 6.   Make your "light colored" image active by clicking on it. Go to Edit/Copy.

Step 7.   Now click on the new image 100x100 transparent image you just opened to make it active. Go to Edit/Paste/As New Layer.  Your image should look like this:

Step 9. Click on the "Mover" tool    and position this new layer in the top left corner.  The far right side of the image should rest at coordinate 50 and the bottom should rest at the center 50 coordinate.

Step 10.  Repeat steps 7 and 8, except this time use the dark colored image. Now position it to the right of the light colored block. The left side and bottom should be at coordinates 100,100.

Step 11. Continue repeating steps 7 through 10, alternating the colors, until you have the image filled with the blocks. When you have finished, the image should look like this:

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Now we are going to add our stitching to the background.

Step 12. Choose a darker color for your stitching than the "darkest" color you used in your background.

Step 13.  Click on the "Draw" tool and use these settings.

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