you cut another piece of your stabilizer and place it under your hoop before you start your stitching.
it is easy to float another piece rather than trying to hoop another.

It means to slide a piece of stabilizer beneath the bottom of the hoop, but not actually hooped. Don in TX

You can float a tear away or the regular stabilizar, just make sure it covers your design area and is laying flat.

Thanks.. I feel like such a dummy !!! Does the floating piece move when the hoop moves ? I'm sure another dumb question !! I am so new to all this and it seems that everything I do is by the seat of my pants ! LOL.. But I am great-full that a dear friend has loaned me her Designer 1 and I am great full for all the CUTIES !! I'm so lucky to have found this site ! 8-)

The extra pieve of stabilizer that you float will help your design stitch out better - if it is a high density design. Isn't it great when you can get an answer - by just asking a question. Hehehe! *4U

You have your answers and remember that no question is dumb. That is how we learn.

Not a dumb question. I had never heard the term in my classes, only on the Internet. Sometimes when you start a design and realize immediately that you should have hooped a heavier stabilizer, this is the answer. I remember seeing the initials ITH and I though what is that? Yes, I knew what a in the hoop design was but i had never seen it as initials. Just like we say WSS. when someone uses a term you don't understand , just ask. You probably are not the only one wondering. Kay

No way is that a silly Question and I have since used the same idea when I applique designs by floating fabric underneath you get a design on both sides the same Hugs Shazells