From Wee Wisdom, 1928.

From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.

From Medical College of Virginia's 1956 yearbook.

From Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties, written and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1858.

From Sew a Fine Seam by Violet Wilson and illustrated by Margaret Messer, 1964.

"I need you, Mrs. Needle (said the stocking), I'm in a dreadful hole—it's really shocking!"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1933.

"Peter Puck wants to know if the eye of a needle is its point of view."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.

Nervous to my fingertips.  From Together, 1962.

From Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties, written and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1858.  We previously saw this version.

From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.

From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.

From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.

From St. Nicholas, 1885.

From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).

Today's enchanted darning needle and bodkin dancing the polka are from Homespun Stories by Clara Denton, 1924.

After we researched our answer to the age-old question of how many angels can dance upon the the point of a needle, we discovered a delightfully whimsical analysis: "Science has not yet adequately answered this question, mostly because science has gone about investigating it in entirely the wrong way. Traditionally, theologians have been set to work on this problem; but, in fact, to answer the question adequately, we need a milliner, or someone of a similar profession that requires a similar expertise in the use of pins. There are hundreds if not thousands of kinds, shapes, sizes, and colors of pins, and what we need is someone capable of sorting them out and making an accurate classification of their genera and species. By way of contrast, there are only nine orders of angels; so it would obviously be easier to teach a milliner everything he needs to know about theology than it would be to teach a theologian everything he needs to know about pins."  —Dr. Boli