Great top and it depends on how you want to end your threads. I like to hand tie my thread ends and bury the ends in the sandwich with a self thread needle. If you are hand knotting and burying the ends you want as few ends to do as possible. I would stitch in continuous lines out to the sides and I would have no ends to do.
Some people use the stitch in place method to end their threads. If you want to do that method you could stitch around every square.