Thank you, everyone for such great suggestions. I'm going to take pen to paper this morning and do some sketches so I can figure this out. I bought fabric for the star but decided to wait to buy fabric for the borders and whatever else I'll need for the top. I'm going to have to make up my mind about this in the next week because I'm in the UP where quilt shops are few and far apart. I'll be taking a trip back downstate where lots of quilts shops give me tons of choices on the batiks to use. Not everyone has a great selection of batiks.
So, keep giving me ideas and I'll follow up with my sketches when I figure some things out.