I just quilt for myself and a few friends that are not at all picky. I do not like pantos and never do them. I jut do free hand designs from the front of the machine on my HQ16. I don't have many in my quilting brain but most of the quilts are so busy not much show up anyhow. I don't like dense quilting either. These are mainly charity quilts and I want them soft.
I wanted to outline blocks once and did a free hand small serpentine stitch around them. I call it a wiggle stitch. Looks cute and is simple to do.