DH has a favourite cartoon character and would love a polo shirt with the character embroidered on the breast area (on a pocket, perhaps). I can't find this available to buy online, so I have a (possibly over-ambitious!) plan to buy a plain polo shirt and do the embroidery myself.
I know there are websites where you can feed in an image and it will convert it to a cross-stitch design, so hopefully that bit will be fine. The problem is, my very limited experience of embroidery has always involved canvas-like material with evenly spaced holes, so that the stitches are a consistent size. Obviously a polo shirt won't have this, so what would be the best approach? Is there some technique that will allow me to embroider directly onto the material with even spacing? Or should I do the character on the canvassy stuff and then try to applique it to the shirt?
Thanks in advance!