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All of the designs on this quilt top are dense. In addition to a very heavy fusible stabilizer, I used a lightweight fusible interfacing on these designs. There was a long period of time when I didn't do any and, when I went back to finish sewing enough blocks for this quilt top, I forgot to include the lightweight interfacing and I had some trouble with the stitching not meeting where it should have. I had to figure out what the problem was and decided it was because I forgot or neglected to add that interfacing. Once I started using it again, I had no more problems. When I was preparing to make the quilt top, I pulled all the stabilizer/interfacing off all the way up to the design and then cut it off close to the stitching. Whenever I get around to quilting this top, I will probably do free motion meandering within each block, up to the designs, which should make them really stand out.
As has been said already in this thread, you need to stabilize very well and not stretch your fabric when you hoop. Tear-away stabilizer is a 'no-no' for dense designs.