Our guild is a modern one so I'm not sure if this will help or not... We are doing a quilt for the library to sell(they won't raffle them here for legal reasons) and we're doing improvisational word quilts this one will be based on words about reading like best seller, relax, etc
We just finished three for donation that are a simple star block. To tie them all together, the star was required to be white or white on white - no creams, etc and the rest of the pieces of the blocks needed to be one color per block - so someone could do a white and blue block or a white and green block, etc. It worked out nicely - although our biggest problem is that some people do not believe in a 1/4" seam and we have a lot of blocks that aren't the right size... they're too small... They will be set aside for their own quilt I suppose or something... I'm not sure yet what the organizer of that one is going to do yet...