The phrase "a sewing needle" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a specific type of needle used for sewing fabric or other materials together.
Example: "I need to buy a sewing needle to fix the hem of my dress."
Alternatives: "a stitching needle" or "a fabric needle".
I know as much about needles as I do about jewelry, but I'm pretty sure this isn't a sewing needle.
TILLIE THE TERRIBLE SWEDE How One Woman, a Sewing Needle, and a Bicycle Changed History By Sue Stauffacher.
I think about leaving it off, but after careful consideration I decide to use a sewing needle stuck partway into a rolled up Post-it note.
He once stabbed himself with a sewing needle, leaving a bruise the size of a silver dollar but told his parents he had been in a bike accident.
One of these minuscule figures, about the size of a sewing needle, is in the Giacometti retrospective that has just opened at the Museum of Modern Art.
Two had snaky tattoos around the neck, in the style that bespeaks work done with a sewing needle and ballpoint-pen ink in a jail cell.
The cells, which are extracted from human embryos when the embryos are as tiny as the tip of a sewing needle, have the potential to grow into any of the body's more than 200 different cell types.
They might contain only one metal component: a firing pin smaller than a sewing needle, says Eddie Banks, a retired deminer and author of a book on landmine design.
Remember last week, when some dude went on FOX4 claiming that his Droid 2 "popped" next to his ear, raining a hellstorm of glass and fury that required a doctor and a sewing needle to patch back up?
The very first commercial memory devices, called core memories, were made in the 1950s and required several intersecting wires, along with a ceramic ring that could slip over a sewing needle, to hold a single bit of a data.
"It is very time-consuming and specialized work," she says as she coils a gold wire, only 12 microns thick, around a sewing needle so it can be used in a pressure test.
