U+1F9F6 · emoji since 2018
The ball of yarn with knitting needles is for cozy crafts. It means knitting, crochet, and making something warm by hand.
It headlines hobby nights and handmade gifts, and tags a cat's favorite toy to bat around the floor.
In texting, 🧶 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 🧶 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Yarn emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the yarn emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 🧶 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.