To repair shoes at home usually resort to the help of sewing, as the needle, even the colon, cannot cope: it is not easy to pierce hard material, it is difficult to push a needle, and it breaks often. In addition, in inconvenient locations, especially in the toe shoes, no needle turn, no procnotice. Here the awl is not much of an icebreaker: pierces it easily, but then how to thread the thread into the hole? Again called to the aid of a needle, but the difficulties already mentioned.