We nearly missed our flight to Broome due to a couple of craft-related miscalculations on my part.
Firstly, Emma had some homework to do, so I told her to just throw her school pencilcase in her carry-on bag. Forgetting she had scissors in there. D'oh. Goodbye scissors.
Secondly, being aware of recently relaxed regulations allowing passengers to take knitting needles on board, I thought "Yahoo!" and packed a knitting project bag with some socks I was about to start.
Socks. Knitted on nice, pointy, thin, metal, Addi double-pointed needles. Put bag through security. "Uh, ma'am, what are these?"
"Knitting needles."
"Um. I'm going to have to check with someone."
"Oh. Okay." [thinking: Shit. They've probably never seen these and think of chunky straight needles for knitting basic scarves, when they think knitting needles. Shit. Those are expensive needles. The flight has started boarding!*]
After calling over a couple more people, they finally determined that I wasn't planning to stab someone with these pointy objects and let us through.
Needless to say, I packed them in the checked baggage for the return flight. I should also add that I got horribly tangled when winding a ball from the skein, and it took me so long to untangle, that I never got to start the damn socks anyway.
* I'm not an idiot. We got to the airport in heaps of time considering we checked-in online. Unfortunately the Virgin bag-drop line seemed to take longer than the actual check-in line, so we ended up almost late!
2 comments:
Great they let you keep them :) Hey have you tried the 30cm circs for socks? Not everyone finds them easier but I like them, no more almost poking myself in the eye with DPNs
Yeh, I was relieved! No, I haven't tried 30cm circs for socks. Do you find it tricky to do the first few rounds? I've been meaning to try Magic Loop for a while but ultimately, while DPNs are fiddly, they're a known quantity for me.
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