Dear of troy: Here is a URL to a site about Inuit (Eskimo) making bone needles with eyes.
Scroll down to second set of drawings. If the Inuit could make bones from reindeer
fibula into needles with eyes, needle eyes must be very old.
http://www.co.north-slope.ak.us/ihlchome/_Utq/descip/sewing/sewing.htm

I wish the article had told how they made the eyes in the days before they had steel tools.
I don't think I could do it.

Edit: I had a idea. The canine teeth of immature foxes or wolves might be pointed eough
so serve as awls for piercing the end of the fibula splinter to make an eye.