Solid Seven Bee blocks

A couple of months ago, I was invited to join an Instagram bee called the Solid Seven. The premise for this Modern Quilt Bee is that they use only high quality solids in their bee blocks. There are more than seven members, but the seven refers to the color spectrum, ROYGBIV. Since I love solids, love modern quilting and really enjoy bees, I was excited to join their ranks. 

Our first set of blocks are for Nicole (Saphre1964). Nicole asked us to make three blocks, on a 13 inch square of white solid, within the theme "collage". She likes bright, saturated colors and requested that our first block be something that represents our childhood. I decided to go with board game pieces....

The other two blocks could be whatever we wanted. After a couple of very rainy days in Texas, this block came to me....

Then I was stuck. I had some ideas but they just weren't coming together the way I wanted them to. Until a friend of mine posted this photo on Instagram, while she was vacationing in Marrakech...

The geometrics really spoke to me.  Block three came to me very quickly after that...

These are off in the mail to Nicole and I am anxiously awaiting our next prompt. If you want to see more of this bee's creations, check out #thesolidseven on Instagram.