Thanks for the suggestions everyone, and I will see if I can post a picture of the blocks (need to take one first). They are Christmas fabrics, so not really any pastels.
The reason I thought of doing only a 1" frame is because I plan to add 2" sashing in another color too so I thought the narrower would look better.
Thanks for the tip on size too. Thankfully these are both going to women that are not very tall (4' 10" and 5' 4") lol.