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June 28, 2006
Boobies at Sunset
Oh, I've been dragging my feet on this. Do you know how long boobie scarf #4 has been mostly-finished? A month. For a month it's been sitting in my knitting bag, in need of blocking.
Now, it's not like blocking is hard. And it's not like I haven't blocked three of these scarves already. It just felt like more than I could handle in my current state. To prove how difficult blocking is, I timed myself while I did it today.
40 minutes. A whole 40 minutes, 25 of which was spent in search of my straight pins. I spent another five eating a granola bar. It's hard work, I tell ya!
Obviously, we'd all better hope and pray that I never get a debilitating illness. I'm far too much of a weakling to handle it.
Speaking of which, here's the deal with the boobie scarves. My Vanilla Ice-listening cousin rocks the mic like a vandal and will be doing The Breast Cancer 3-Day in six short weeks. She'll be walking 60 miles in three days. In August! To raise money for the The Susan G. Komen Foundation. She's got a $2750.00 fundraising goal, and she's almost there!
Let's get her there really, really soon. Place a bid on this-here boobie scarf! It's hand-knitted by me from a pattern by Jill Moreno. As soon as I'm finished with my foray into tit-knitting, I'm plunging head-first into one of Jill's sweater projects from her book Big Girl Knits.
Here's how it works:
The auction begins immediately (11 PM central standard time on Wednesday, June 28th) and will end at 5 PM tomorrow, Thursday, June 29th. Bidding starts at $30. Place your bids in the comments and specifically state that you're bidding and what amount. Make sure you leave your email address!
Once bidding has ended, the winner will make a pledge directly through Wendy's 3-Day page. Donate the money in honor of "boobie scarf". You won't send me any money. You won't send Wendy any money. And you should be glad, because if you send us money, we'll probably use it to buy beer. We won't see your credit card number, either.
100% of the auction amount will go to the 3-Day. I'm covering all the expenses for the scarf, and I'll even pay for the shipping, overseas included.
Once the winner has donated, she needs to email me (robindawn at gmail dot com) with a shipping address. Boobies will be on the way post-haste.
If you'd like to see how the previous auctions worked, you can check them out here, here and here.
Here's the goods on the scarf: it's 4 inches wide by 49 inches long, knit from Dive Teseo in color #28222. The yarn's 55% wool and 45% microfiber, which makes it so, so, so soft. As for the colors, well, they reminded me of sunset. Particularly, a late 1970s sunset, like the ones often seen on velour upholstery. I had Escape (The Pina Colada Song) going through my head the whole time I was working on it.
Now, watch as the boobies begin their ride off into the sunset...
Posted by Robin at June 28, 2006 10:29 PM
Comments
Well my darling, I am thu-rilled to be the very first boobie bidder (seeing as mine have reached record breaking proportions with this pregnancy... record for ME that is.)
I will officially start the bidding at $40.
Posted by: Annie at June 28, 2006 11:54 PM
:) Wow, what a color!!!
I am also totally thu-rilled (but nowhere near pregnant) and I'm gonna jump right into the bidding too!
I'm bidding _$50_ !
Posted by: Debbie at June 29, 2006 09:12 AM
Let's keep this interesting.
$55 dorrah!
Posted by: Julie at June 29, 2006 09:32 AM
you guys are all stars! total all-stars. thank you so much for bidding!!!
Posted by: Wendy at June 29, 2006 09:34 AM
Woo-whee! Look at 'em bid! Thanks!
Posted by: Robin at June 29, 2006 11:09 AM
Amazingly enough, this whole deal got a little grin outta My Mom! I'm stunned! Stunned, I tell ya! It's STUNNING! ;)
I'm bidding _$60_ :)
(And if your Stats show several "Refresh" clicks from Oklahoma, it's me, keepin' this window open all day even though I'm supposed to be workin'!)
Posted by: Debbie at June 29, 2006 12:16 PM
$65 from me. boobies rock.
Posted by: leahpeah at June 29, 2006 01:52 PM
Yay For Boobies!!!
I'm Bidding _$70_
:)
Posted by: Debbie at June 29, 2006 04:41 PM
Can't compete with you Debbie. I have bid on a few too many items on ebay lately. Plus I sort of kind of broke something on my stupid car this morning. :(
I do want to make a donation to you, however, Wendy. Maybe you can convince Robin to post a link to your donation page again?
Posted by: Julie at June 29, 2006 04:55 PM
Oh dear, I know the feeling -- I'm a crazywoman when it comes to Ebay... I stuck back part of my tax refund just as soon as I saw the words "Orange Boobie Scarf" though. :)
Did I win? Am I seein' that right???
Posted by: Debbie at June 29, 2006 05:10 PM
Holy damn! This one's the highest yet!
50 minutes to go...
Posted by: Robin at June 29, 2006 05:13 PM
Aha!!! Time Zone Difference!!!
Well, I just sent in my $70 donation, whichever way it goes -- it's $70 for a GOOD CAUSE, so there it is!! :)
Posted by: Debbie at June 29, 2006 05:23 PM
Deb, as a reward for your months and months of persistance, I'm going to end the auction early. At's all yours and will be in the mail tomorrow!
Thanks so much everyone! So far the boobie scarves have brought in $235 for the 3-Day, which damn near rocks my boobs off.
I'd love to hit $300. Get ready for the final boobie scarf auction, hopefully in a week or two. I call it "Boobies at Dusk".
Posted by: Robin at June 29, 2006 05:27 PM
:) Oh My My!!! I said it before, I'll say it again -- You're Awesome! You. Are. Awesome. No doubt about it!!!
Posted by: Debbie at June 29, 2006 05:30 PM
Thank you, Debbie! Thank you so much!
And of course, thank you, cuz! I'll gladly do the walking while you do the knitting!
Posted by: Wendy at June 29, 2006 10:54 PM
Okay... Maybe by the next auction I will have recovered from my evil "buy up all the Mignon Faget jewelry on ebay" ways.
Posted by: Julie at June 30, 2006 06:25 AM
DAMNDAMNDAMN! My F-i-L arrived in town yesterday (Thursday) early morn and I've only just now had a moment to sit down at the computer (Friday, 4pm). I really wanted one in my college colors.
It's bee-yoo-tee-full.
Posted by: Jane at June 30, 2006 04:08 PM
