MOTHER WILL NOTICE ! And she did. My husband's family plays a lot of Mah Jongg. Once, when we were finished playing for the day, I pushed all the tiles to the center of the table and put the tile racks around them. (The racks are just long sticks that hold the tiles while you play.) To push in the tiles, I placed each rack so that it stuck out on the end, making a square in the middle. John's 12 year old Jewish grandson saw that and had a fit. He was just shaking as he changed it.
Don't tell me that the word "gay" will ever go back to being a "nice" word. When I was little, we were all happy and gay. You can't say that anymore. No matter who you are!
You will be so much happier after you change it. My thought would be to applique a square of a very light color in the center of each block, the same color for all, to hold everything together, but put the square on the bias. That would add interest.