Progress photos! After much sewing, picking apart seams, resewing and cutting (ow! I need a heavier-duty rotary cutter) here is state of the quilt. Each of the blocks is now 8.5" square. So, it is on the small side.

I'm seeking opinions about sashing/border size and color. Any advice very welcome! Again, this is my very first quilt and it is made of baby clothes. This is not going to be a quilt that is used on a bed or anything, so I don't have a specific goal. (I set out to do this a LONG time ago and the little girl is now four!)

Mollymct, that is great. You needd to decide firstly, how big you want this to be,currently it will be 24"X 40" as a finished centre. I would put a solid color border of about2"next, followed by a 5"-^' patterned border, using a single fabric from the blocks, if there's any left, or a scrappy border made from all the fabrics used in the centre.
Whatever you decide, it's looking good, and 4 year olds love quilts, especially when it's all theirs.
Goodluck with the rest of it.

I love the idea of a scrappy border! I will have to see what I have left. These fabrics are all baby clothes, but I have some leftovers. I am afraid I wasn't thinking beyond the squares so I am sure I chunked some perfectly good pieces. :(

Very pretty and I like lindyline's suggestion of a plain and then a patterned border. Do you have enough of your fabrics to make a piano keys outside border?

Looks beautiful!

I'm going to have to look through my leftover pieces and see what I can put together! That will mean a lot more fabric stabilizing, too!!

Do you think "no" to sashing?

Oh this is a very pretty quilt. Very nice job

Finish it.... blocks together and borders. It is and will be Adorable. :)

I don't think it needs sashing. I like it without.

Ahhhh, Sweet!

Thank you all, for the encouragement! I have my scraps out and I'm going to see what I can do about a scrappy piano key border! I think I want the blocks sewn together, too. Do I use a 1/4" seam for that? More?

Keep us posted and yes you use a 1/4" seam for all your quilt top work.

This is absolutely adorable!!!

You are doing a marvelous job on this quilt :D:D:D

If you are curious about a sashing, try laying out a fabric and put the blocks on top of it spaced out and see if you like the way it looks :wink:

I need to get away from this quilt. My house is starting to look neglected! But I decided to keep the blocks together (no sashing) and once I determined that, I had to sew it together. Those corners are tricky, huh? The order of the rows also changed after I realized I had sewed one row on upside down...twice (Due to corners being WAY off, I had ripped and re-pinned/sewed without noticing)! I didn't want to rip it a THIRD time--worried about the poor fabric, so I reordered the rows a bit.

Aside from those small issues, sewing the blocks into rows and the rows together has been the most fun!!

It looks like a quilt!

My goodness this is looking good. Don't forget to send us pics when the borders are on.

Thanks so much! I am excited to see it really coming together. I am working on scrounging up enough fabric leftovers for the piano key border. And need to pick a solid border fabric...