This high quality sewing awl is more like a hand-held sewing machine. The thread is contained right in the handle of the awl for convenience. The kit comes with the Speedy Stitcher sewing awl, a bobbin wound with 14-yards of waxed coarse thread, 4 needles - 2 straight and 2 curved, a 180-yard tube of additional waxed coarse thread and use instructions.