I have hand embroider T shirts before. Flowers, vines, butterflies,bees and dragonflies. I used a medium stabilizer and it was tear away. Worked aout real good. Made 2 dozen and sold all in one day. Of course that was a number of years ago. The vines started on one shoulder and went down the back then back around the front. They were so cute. Good luck with them. I use DMC floss also.