Re: [lace] Re: Lace on Airplanes (& spiraled wire comment)

2010-05-24 Thread Lesley Blackshaw
Malvary J Cole wrote: At Heathrow the check-in people ask if you have anything pointed in your luggage. I said "just my knitting" and was told that it would not be allowed through security. I took my knitting from Manchester to Prague (and back) in my hand-held. Perhaps that was allowed be

Re: [lace] Re: Lace on Airplanes (& spiraled wire comment)

2010-05-22 Thread Laceandbits
In a message dated 22/05/2010 22:51:21 GMT Daylight Time, malva...@sympatico.ca writes: > however on my most recent return to Canada Jacquie and I noticed that > they have opened a Post Office on the departure level of Terminal 3. But note that this is among the shops at the departures end on

Re: [lace] Re: Lace on Airplanes (& spiraled wire comment)

2010-05-22 Thread Malvary J Cole
"Susan Reishus wrote: Some bring a prepaid, self-address mailer, just in case their expensive or favorite needles are at risk. That means either stepping out of line, or trusting someone else to post it, but perhaps helpful to some." When leaving Heathrow (London) there had not been anywhere

Re: [lace] Re: Lace on Airplanes (& spiraled wire comment)

2010-05-22 Thread Laceandbits
In a message dated 22/05/2010 18:42:53 GMT Daylight Time, elationrelat...@yahoo.com writes: > Some bring a prepaid, self-address mailer, just in case their expensive > or favorite needles are at risk. That means either stepping out of line, or > trusting someone else to post it, but perhaps he

[lace] Re: Lace on Airplanes (& spiraled wire comment)

2010-05-22 Thread Susan Reishus
"...UK airports...will still not allow scissors, nail clippers, tweezers, knitting needles...worth the risk...(or) no choice but for the item to be confiscated." Jacquie I suppose this mean one must have pliable travel bobbins?   On the lace knitting front, Bryspun needles seem to make it through m