Comments on: Needle Gypsies: Hit the Road with Your Fave Tools—Just Be Smart About It

By: Sara

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:18:22 +0000

What an excellent post!

By: jake

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:56:26 +0000

Done Katy. Thanks for the thought. For those of us still waiting for stamps in our passport (hubby just won’t get the hint) we sometimes forget that we are not an island unto ourselves on this little planet.

By: Sarah

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:15:17 +0000

Three years ago, running late for a SW flight out of Midway (Chicago), I determined it was more important to get to the plane and possibly loose my 45mm Rotary cutter to a TSA agent than check the bag and have to take a later flight. There was quilting that needed to be done on the other side! Must quilt. Anyway, surprisingly I breezed through TSA going and coming. It both amazing and surprised me, b/c we all know they are a lot more dangerous than a box cutter.

By: Mary Ann Harpe

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:11:17 +0000

Thanks for all the info! I’ve been afraid to carry anything with me to sew.

By: Sam Hunter

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:41:10 +0000

I had 4″ scissors taken away from me in Zurich a few years back, after being OK with them thru LAX, DC, France and Italy. I second taking a pair that you don’t care so much about, and also checking the local country’s regulations.

By: Krista - Poppyprint

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:51:07 +0000

Excellent post, thanks for that! It seems like there is so much conflicting info on scissors – but I think you said it: much depends on the actual security agent you get at the airport. I’ve been cutting thread and perle cotton with the small blade on the top of a dental floss box! The box is great for holding my snipped threads, too.

By: jake

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:43:05 +0000

Ah, we’ll have to put DH through the Quilt Husband Retraining Program won’t we? Can we see the Hexie Vortex when it’s done or along the way even? The name alone has me giving it BIG points towards our Quilt of the Week!

By: Tabatha

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:01:23 +0000

Thanks so much for the great article. I’m a Canadian who will be travelling to Germany in May and wanted to continue my hexie vortex. I had checked the KLM website and was thrilled to see that scissors 4″ or less were allowed! DH is not impressed.

By: Katy

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:17:28 +0000

It would be good if you could mark that this advice is for the US – remember you have readers around the world whose countries have their own restrictions…