bearisgray

I'm still amazed that knitting needles are allowed on planes.

They are LONG and pointy!

jnagy1206

I recently took my sewing stuff on an 8 hr flight with no problems. I also travel with a syringe & needle & they don't even want me to declare that. Go figure.

GrammaNan

No way! I got busted trying to quilt at my last jury duty. They don't like anything sharp in there. It was embarrassing, so it I were you I wouldn't do it.

mbmquilts

I work at an airport and you can bring knitting needles, they prefer wood needles. You can also bring small sewing needles to work on projects.

nursie76

I don't know about jury duty, but I just flew to New Zealand and back and took my hand quilting and a needle. I put it in a piece of flannel in my pocket book. When I checked the official air flight site that listed what was allowable, needle work and knitting needles were listed as ok.

Jannie

Things are much tighter in courts now than they used to be. I was called for jury duty once & going from 1 building to the next had different rules. You could have needles & scissors in the first one but not the second one -- just depended on the court. Now we have to go thru metal detectors just to get inside any court building so I doubt you could get by. Best thing to do is call though. It might not be so tight.

Here when you are called to jury duty, you get a number & have to call in 3 times a day until your number is given a time & a court to show up at. At the end of the week, if your number is not called, you are off the hook until your name gets selected again. I agree everyone should have to serve on at least 1 trial & there has to be a better way to pick a jury.

Traveler from MA

I brought red work and they took my scissors but the guard let me use his to cut when I needed to. We were suppose to fly soon but changed our mind. I was wondering, myself, about the scissors on flights

mbmquilts

if the scissors are less then 4inches long you may bring them thru the airport. the scissors I use are much smaller then that

Bonnie Moon

I'm not trying to be rude, but you seem to be missing the point. Your attention needs to be on the evidence and witness testimony. No matter how trivial it is to you, a person life is hanging in the balance here. No matter how small or large the case maybe, the verdict could very well be changed by you not having your full attention on the case. There is a time and place for quilting and cutting threads, this is not one of them. Take your quilting to the doctor's office while you have to wait since you will not be the one performing surgery. If it were your family member on trial, would you want to see someone in the jury box reading a book or quilting?

Annz

I would call ahead just in case. If you bring it and you leave any part of it with them to pick up on your way out you may forget to pick it up like a friend of mine did. She had to pay to get back onto the city transit, walk back to pick up her stuff and pay again to go back home. She said it was pretty frustrating and she didn't get all her stuff back. Darn!