Depending on the thickness you may need to float the quilt on top of the hoop. You would still put stablizer on the hoop and you can spray it with spray adheasive and then lay the quilt and I'd use a couple of pins to make sure it stays and quilt it that way. When you do it that way it's called floating because you don't hoop it. You would also use this on delicate materials or things like balsa wood where you can't hoop. You need to make sure you have your machine in the middle of table so that the quilt will be fully supported and not tug on the machine; this needs to be done rather you hoop or float the quilt.