Quilting Around The Pugs?

I'm almost done quilting the pug quilt.  I've outlined the pugs:

and SITD most of the stars:

but the pugs need something else.  Do I just do a simple stipple?  I don't want a stiff quilt but I think the open areas need something.

I still need to raid the basement for a stencil to quilt the 8 open brown squares and the border.