All the Dakota designs I've used from the treasure chest book do have underlay, but if you go into designshop and click on a fill area, you won't see it come up. The dakota designs have the underlay separately...if you delete or move part of a design, you'll see it right there. Many times I go in and remove all the excess garbage, and then click the 'fill' and auto add the underlay there. I find many unneccessary stitches that way. Roland