Drop in at your local thrift stores and even the Tuesday Morning store which is now handling quilt patches. Use the good part of cotton blouses you no longer wear or shirts from the thrift store you can get for peanuts. In that way you will be joining the pioneer women and those who know how to find fabric and save your money. Sale bed linens and clothing are always a good source and let us know, we all could send you scraps or pieces of fabric.
You don't need a border on any quilt. If you use the method to finish a quilt when you sew the three parts together and leave a space to turn it right side out, a border isn't needed. I use a strip around some of mine just to make it stronger on the edges for a binding but have done many like yours, without it.
Love your quilt, will copy the pattern and use it, I sew
small squares for our church quilt project and yours would be a perfect choice for a pattern. Keep up the good work and you will be famous one day.
Carol J.