Originally Posted by
PaperPrincess
I hooped a couple layers of wash away, embroidered then removed the stabilizer so that the embroidered block fabric would have about the same density as the rest of the quilting cotton. Also, I was never very successful with dense embroidery designs. Redwork worked really well, however. here's one:
Pink Princesses
By dense designs, are you talking about designs from Embroidery Library? I find most of the designs I've gotten from them to be unnecessarily dense. What I do is enlarge the design 5% in my machine or if it's a small detailed design I switch to thinner 60wt thread and a size 9 needle. Either way really helps with the density.
I've added embroidered blocks to several quilts. I cut the block fabric over size, do the embroidery and then trim the block to size.
Cari