How To Embroider A Shirt Without Stabilizer. Turn the shirt wrong side out. A cotton fabric shirt is the best to work with especially when you are embroidering by hand.
Then you can use baking paper. Mark the center point and horizontal and vertical axis of the template on the shirt using the disappearing ink pen. When your shirt embroidery is done, remove the hoop from the machine, and release your shirt.
Without the use of the proper stabilizer the registration of the design may be off, you might have puckering, and your fabric may distort.
The shirt is sandwiched between the stabilizer and the embroidery hoop. Then, put the inner hoop in place, lining up the marks in the shirt with the marks on the hoop. You can put this stabilizer on the front or the back of your work since it is dissolvable. After you are done sewing, coffee filters are easy to tear.