I have never had my knitting needles taken from me on a flight. I do use circular needles, to avoid poking my seatmates, but have never had the needles questioned except by other envious knitters who come up to me and say: What??? We can carry our knitting needles on the plane?<br>
<br>I think a knit in is a spectacular idea. I will have a project with me in Baku, and can bring extra needles and yarn for those who want to learn to knit :)<br><br>Cheers, Ginger<br clear="all">Ginger (Virginia) Paque<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 July 2012 09:48, Andrew A. Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aaa@meiji.ac.jp" target="_blank">aaa@meiji.ac.jp</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
William Drake suggested:<br>
> When the IOC folks were speaking in Prague it'd have been great if a<br>
> bunch of people could have pulled out knitting needles…maybe Toronto?<br>
> Some street theatre is always good for a meeting…<br>
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Nice idea. You'd have to find a local supply (or have someone bring hold<br>
baggage to bring in a bunch) though, since AFAIK knitting needles are amongst<br>
the terrible deadly weapons currently banned from being taken onto planes in<br>
the war on tourism. ICANN meetings are short enough that lots of attendees<br>
may well be flying hand luggage only (I know I would be).<br>
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Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and<br>
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics<br>
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan <a href="http://www.a-cubed.info/" target="_blank">http://www.a-cubed.info/</a><br>
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