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Sewing Needle Emoji 🪡

What 🪡 means

A slanting grey needle with the eye facing upwards and a blue thread passing through it; the color of which differs on platforms. Sometimes, this needle is shown with a tapering structure.

The 🪡 Sewing Needle emoji signifies the literal and metaphorical interpretations of 'stitching'. It suggests fixing, attaching, connecting, joining two or more pieces of something or someone together.

How and when to use it

If you're suggesting someone to sew up their relationship with someone, you can use 🪡. For example, "Its high time you suck up your pride and stitch the pieces 🪡. Come on, man. He's your dad"
If you're texting your bestie, partner or even a parent about a quick and mindful fix you or someone else carried out, essentially, a stitch in time, you can use 🪡 - "If it wasn't for her stitch in time we'd be in trouble 🪡".
Similarly, you can also use 🪡 to refer to a timely action - "Nip it in the bud and stitch it in time, before it falls apart 🪡".
The eye of the needle is a famous phrase. You can use 🪡 while referring to a small or narrow opening, in a metaphorical sense. Like, "This is a window of opportunity. Doesn't matter if it's way too smaller than you imagined, but USE IT! 🪡"
🪡 can also be used in the contexts of fashion and fashion designing. Suppose you're sharing pictures of your latest design or a repost of some designing videos, tailoring posts, etc, you can use this emoji in those captions too.

Other Names

🪡 Needle and Thread
🪡 Sewing
🪡 Stitching
🪡 Stitch in Time
🪡 Tailoring
🪡 Fashion Design
🪡 Sew
🪡 Sew Up
🪡 Stitching Up

The lowdown

Category: Activities › arts & crafts
Codepoints: U+1FAA1
Emoji version: Emoji 13.0
Shortcodes: :sewing_needle:
Keywords: embroidery, needle, sew, sewing, stitches, sutures, tailoring, thread

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.