[Artemisia] No Point in Wasting the Travel Time

[Sue Clemenger]

Not true.  Depends on the airport, and sometimes on the type of knitting 
needles.  People have gotten on airplanes with all kinds of textile 
stuff recently.  Aurora, you should call the airline, or the Phoenix 
airport and ask (and your local airport, as well).  Or their websites. 
If you decide to take the chance, some folks tell me that they carry 
with them a padded, self-addressed stamped envelope so that if they run 
into someone being particularly cranky, they can mail their needles back 
to themselves.  Sort of an extra insurance, especially if you've got 
favorite needles, or ones made of exotic wood or something....
I didn't have any problem with embroidery needles when I was flying in 
and out of Europe in the fall of 2002, and security was *extremely* 
tight then, with the anniversary of 9-11 and all.  I packed some 
(together with my embroidery scissors) in my checked luggage, and took a 
couple of needles, my embroidery, and lengths of pre-cut floss with me 
and had no problems at all.  Lots of interesting comments from fellow 
travellers on the plane.
--maire, laurel of travelling textiles ;-)

Morgan Wolf wrote:
> My mom works airport security-
> No knitting needles, no airline, period.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: artemisia-bounces+morganwolf=sofast.net at lists.gallowglass.org
> [mailto:artemisia-bounces+morganwolf=sofast.net at lists.gallowglass.org] On
> Behalf Of Dawn Tavares
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 12:52 PM
> To: artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org
> Subject: [Artemisia] No Point in Wasting the Travel Time
> 
> Gentlefolk,
> 
> I plan on flying into Phoenix for Estrella. Does anyone know if America West
> 
> allows knitting or embroidery needles through security clearance for use on 
> short flights?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Aurora
> dtavares1 at hotmail.com