Many Swiss folding knives and their copies have a small wide awl with a hole on the side. Most owners of this tool have no idea why they need it. This is not a useless, but a completely working part of the knife, which can be used to stitch leather.
What you will need:
- folding knife with awl;
- dense thread.
The process of sewing with a knife awl
The first step is to prepare a piece of thread for sewing. To prevent its edge from unwinding into fibers, it is better not to cut it, but to burn it with a lighter.
The prepared piece of thread is passed halfway through the hole in the awl.
Next, you need to use an awl to pierce the stitched layers of leather and pull one edge of the thread to the other side.
Then the tool is removed. You need to pierce all layers of leather a little further again, trying to keep the stitching straight.
The awl is pushed in all the way and then pulled out halfway to loosen the loop. The edge of the thread previously brought out on the other side is inserted into it.
The awl is pushed in further to the end again and pulled out halfway. The free drawn edge of the thread is similarly passed into the formed loop.
In this way, stitch by stitch is carried out.At the end, the awl is removed, and the edges of the threads are tied together in a regular knot 2 times. The technique of sewing with an awl on a knife can be used not only on leather, but also on canvas, rubber, burlap and other rough types of fabric.
