Jean - Yes. Stippling is the term for a very small, tight quilting design. The larger quilting design we see so often in quilting today is called meander/ing. The term stipple is misused quite often. Quilting over the entire quilt is perfectly acceptable. The quilting we see on quilts that have been LAQ at M* are over the entire quilt. I believe it gets alot more expensive if one orders customized quilting. There's a lot of planning time involved. All-over quilting does add more strength to the seams as well. It's a preference thing. Either way is fine. Since I use my embroidery machine to quilt, most of the quilting I'm doing is all over. Since I am totally dependent on purchased designs off the web I am somewhat limited by the size of their designs. Hopefully, I'll get some software to do some designing so I can do more cusomized quilting but for now all over is just fine for me. I'm also lazy! LOL By the time I get the top together I just want the darn thing quilted for that immediate gratification thing. If I have to spend lots of time figuring out how to place designs within the seams I get frustrated. That's certainly the beauty of FMQ. You can plan it out and make it fit a lot easier.