Not the right configuration. Both head and hole should not be wider than the shaft. Neither the material; mending needles have a harder steel finish, not soft enough to have decorations. A worse situation if it were for leather penetration; edges and point sharpness having to be more acute. 
Still so far the brick laying level tool is the winner. 
...Further opinions to be considered, though. 
 
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