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I'm trying to replicate the pattern of F. Scott Fitzgerald's tie from "Midnight in Paris" in Illustrator.
I thought it would be easy enough, but have tried a lot of things with the white squares and gold background, and it always comes out something like this.
My first idea was one square.
I don't know what to do anymore. Maybe I'm overthinking it
It's a simple checkerboard using brick by row for an offset:
I would actually create a pattern of only the focus areas - just the little white box and what's inside it (replacing white with red in the image below, so it can be seen). Creating a no-fill, no-stoke, rectangle behind everything to define the actual tile boundaries. Then I'd apply another fill beneath the actual pattern for the flood fill:
Or create a second pinstripe pattern to use for the background fill (the red box above was set back to white for the image below):
