I second the bargello idea. Or you could do a Trip Around the World. Eleanor Burns has a great video on YouTube (called Quick Trip I think) showing how to do it. You could use the same strip sets to make a bargello.

What size are you aiming for? For high school graduation you might want a quilt that she can use on a dorm bed at college. Most of those are twin XL, and a bricks, bargello, or AVFD's design would be easier to stretch in length than a larger block size.

Thanks so much for all of the suggestions!!! All of them are great ideas! It will be a twin size. Now I just need to choose one and get started :)

Most of the patterns of Jenny doan/MSQC are easy yet cute! Altho she used precuts, you can easily translate that to yardage...

Irishrose2 this is awesome. I love how you did the border. Can you tell me where I can purchase this pattern?

Boston1954 did a beautiful quilt of boxed squares. Easy pattern and the results are beautiful.

The Carpenter Star is at Maryquilts (see link in above post), the braided border was from quilterscache. http://www.quilterscache.com/B/BraidBlock.html

Put the two together with 9 batiks (8 in the star and one background) and you have my daughter's birthday quilt. You can use many fewer fabrics. I have one cut out with only two colors and a background. I rarely purchase patterns, so I hope this helps.

I am just finishing up a quilt for my DGS and you can choose any size from the pattern and you can introduce more white if you wanted. [ATTACH=CONFIG]586934[/ATTACH]

Summer in the park is nice done in white and batiks. I do not know how to attach pictures but you can see it on pintrest.

MSQC, Jennie Doan just posted a new quilt that is done in 30's fabrics but I think it would also look fabulous in batics. It's called 4 x 4. It's her latest tutorial.