You will love Quilter's Paradise! This is a huge design collection with over 150 designs to enhance any quilt. You can use these designs many different ways. The first way would be to use them as a standard embroidery design by hooping and sewing the top fabric only. The second way to use them would be to hoop the top fabric along with your quilt batting and your quilt back. If you create your project this way, the running stitch designs will look quilted. The final way would be to use the designs on a quilt you have already completed. You would need to hoop a piece of dissolve-away sticky stabilizer. You would then stick your quilt to the stabilizer, embroider the design of your choice, and then wash the stabilizer away. The project we created for this collection was actually embroidered onto fabric that was already blocks. We didn't even have to piece the quilt. We found a piece of silk Dupioni with 6" blocks. We simply created the quilt and then embroidered each block using designs from the collection. We also include in the tutorial a guide that demonstrates how to use multiple designs together.
