You would use small stippling to make certain areas stand out by densely quilting around the area(but not on)you want to stand out. If you want the whole quilt to stand out you don't want to do a lot of quilting, like do stitch in the ditch. It also matters what batting you use. You can use a high loft poly (I, myself do not use poly), or two layers of warm and natural. This works great. If the spaces are too great in-between the stitching you can always do crosses, or even little tacks every so many inches. What ever you do have fun.