Difficult fabric

It's been a while since I did any proper sewing, so I wanted to spend my sewing time today doing what I like best - making blocks I don't have to think about too much.  I decided to go through my stash and find a piece of fabric which would work as a focus fabric and make some simple bordered squares. I picked this one, partly because it's not too busy, partly because I had the right amount of it (between 1/2 and 1 metre) and partly because it's a fabric I've found difficult to use in the past. I don't know where or when I got it, but that's true of a number of fabrics in my stash - sometimes people give me things, sometimes I buy things on sale and forget about them later, sometimes things come as part of a pack...

What makes this fabric difficult is that a) it's out of focus. It's not the photo, it's the actual fabric - the printing is kind of blurred on it and b) although there are other colours in it - blue and purple - the white is so dominant it tends to take over. 

So, here I've paired it with some blues and purples to bring out those colours and will alternate white bordered blocks with white centred blocks. There are actually two of each block shown here - they are 6" blocks (finished), so it will make a nice 5x6 block baby quilt top.  Perhaps tomorrow I will stitch the blocks together!  Unless, of course, I get distracted by something else...