I make mostly lap quilts or baby quilts. Usually I end up with more quilting. My hands and brain just start swirling or doing wavy lines and the denseness is set! Once you start out denser, you need to keep that denseness in the whole quilt so it's flat. I've seen quilts that I think are over or under quilted and detract from the piecing. When I go to a show, I'm more apt to feel sad about the under quilted ones.