This tailor’s awl features a handle that is heavier and has a more powerful feel with non slip hand and finger grips. Combing this with the hexagon bridge further enhances the power while providing a softer and more comforatble tool to work with. The non-roll bridge also ensures your tools will no longer roll off the table every time you put them down.
A tailor’s awl has many uses including:
– Help feed thick or heavy fabric through the presser foot. Expecially when sewing bags.
– Gives you a lot more control while you sew straps, binding and anything too fiddly to pin.
– Use it for poking holes in pattern pieces
– Use it for rotating pattern pieces when patterndrafting (ie moving darts)
Check out this free tutorial by You Sew Girl which describes the use of a Tailor’s Awl when seing up a purse strap.