Baby A's blocks are coming together

All the fussy cuts from the garments I have are now top-stitched onto backing pieces. There are 38 of these plus the 3 odd sized pieces which went on 4 backing blocks. A twin quilt is 54" x 90". The finished blocks will be 8" squares. So we need 9 rows of 6 blocks each = 54 blocks. That means there are 12 blanks. But that won't last long, mom is looking for a few more garments so there aren't so many blanks.

Here are just a couple of the blocks - so cute.

I laid the blocks out on the spare bed to see how they are going to look together and came up with this arrangement - not that this is what we will end up with but it is a very sweet quilt.

If we don't use sashing, the pieces top will need 9" border to make a twin sized quilt. A bit big for a border but not unreasonable. If we add an inch border between each block and around the outside of the pieced top the border would be just 2 inches. If we used the same material for the sashing and the border, the borders would be 3 inches. 

I'll meet with Mom and get a decision - and pick up the last of the garments to make the rest of the blocks.