DJ, Those comments you found look very helpful!
With my first block, I thought I'd make the quilt using sort of Civil War type fabrics, or any scraps that I thought looked nice with those type of fabrics. My CW fabric stash is mostly smaller pieces and all sorts of colors. I'm not into matchy-matchy type quilts, so scrappy for all the blocks is fine with me.
SBG was doing more than one set of blocks, so I thought I would try another. For my second (January) block, I chose a few prints and will add various shades of brown. I only have FQs, so maybe I will not have enough of the prints for them to extend to all the blocks. I want this one to look 'manly' and I plan to give it away.
I think you could either use this and that, or use some big chunks of fabric where you will be able to incorporate the same prints in all 12 blocks.
Here's my second block--