Current Quilt Project

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My current quilt project is the one I was given to work on that had been started by my great-grandma years ago. It is made out of the clothes my mom and her sisters, not sure about the brothers, used to wear. The clothing was cut into diamond type shapes and then sewn into hexagons. They were then sewn into rows. There was one row completed and a few started when I was given the box a couple of months ago. So far I have only had to sew one hexagon myself, the rest has just been sewing the hexagons together. I've also sewn several of the rows together and am finally down to the last three rows. It's been frustrating because everything was hand cut, so nothing lays perfectly and there are puckers all over the place. Now I'm starting to think about how I'm going to finish the quilt but am struggling with that. As it's made out of hexagons, the sides aren't straight. I've come up with two ideas on how to straighten the sides, but I'm not sure which one to do. One idea is to make half-hexagons out of the same diamond shapes that the rest is made out of, I have plenty, and the other is to cut out half hexagons out of another fabric all together. If I do the diamonds one, I either have to sew full hexagons together and then cut them in half or cut several of the diamond shapes in half and then sew the half-hexagons together. If I go the new fabric I have to decide what color to go with. Whether to have it the same as the border fabric, or skip the border all together, or to have it the same as the back fabric, or the binding. I also have to decide if I want to use a binding on it or skip that too. Any suggestions you may have are welcome. I included a picture of what the end of the rows looks like in case my description isn't clear.