Darrell2688
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se a sewing machine needle and I wrap the thread around the pin in the handle to apply a little tension on the thread and I also use the pin as a guide, I keep facing in the direction that I am sewing. I have put the thread through the loop that is made on the back side of the needle, which would be the side that the sewing awl needle would make a loop on. I just need to get a little more practice, and a couple of sewing machine bobbins filled with brown and black thread to start off with. I will get the hang of it, I ordered some new quilting, top stitch sewin machine needles today.An awl needle has a groove running up one side. A sewing machine needle will not work very well because it does not have the groove.
The thread from the bobbin lays in that groove and then passes through the needle eye.. The tag end which has passed through the eye is the working end. When the needle is pushed through the fabric and then partially retracted the loop forms on the non-grooved side (because it is rubbing against rthe fabric).