How to Fix a Ripped Shirt Hem

Turn your shirt inside out.

Find your shirt's ripped hem.

If the shirt has any loose strings, trim them.

Iron the area of the shirt where the hem is ripped.

If the hem is ripped several inches, you might want to insert sewing pins to keep the fabric in place.

Acquire a sewing needle and thread.

Take your thread and loop it through the eye of the needle, the hole at the end of the needle.

Pull the thread through the needle so that there is an equal length on each side of the needle.

Tie the end of the thread together by making a knot.

Starting on the inside of the shirt, poke the needle through toward the side that is right-side-out.

Once the needle and thread is pulled through the side that is right-side-out, you will push it back through as close to the original hole as you can.

When you're back on the inside of the hem, make the next stitch a couple millimeters over and diagonal from the first.

Continue this pattern so that the inside has diagonal stitches, and the outside has small, staggered dots.

Finish sewing the hem. Make sure the last stitch is on the inside of the shirt.

Make a knot where you intend for the pattern to stop.

It's important to tie the knot as close to the fabric as possible. Doing this secures the stitching.

Cut off excess thread.