Well, I'm sitting in the lounge in Fiji waiting for the flight to Vanuatu-I had no problems with my needles or scissors in my kit-no one batted an eye in Los Angele, and they only took them out to look at them in Fiji! Yea! Now I hope I get the same security people on the return flight!
I had a Dritz needle threader/cutter as well, and it will NOT thread my needle!! Maybe it needs a bigger hole needle, but I just took a couple of small ones hoping I could get them thru security-and it worked.