I used something like the disappearing 9-patch (the website I found it on called it something else, but I'm pretty sure it was a D9P) for an eye spy and it looks really nice. I didn't want the busy-ness of all those prints right next to each other.
Only the corner blocks of the nine patches were the novelty fabrics, the center was a bright orange, and the other 4 were tone-on-tones and solids in various colors.