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August 13, 2006
The Friday Shuffle: Alas for You, Boobie Scarves. You're Done. Edition
In less than a week The Cuz will be walking 60 miles in three days for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. And for six months, I have knit nothing but boobies to help her raise money for her walk. There have been pink boobies, green tweedy boobies, rosy pink and green boobies, and flaming sunset-orange boobies. Well, I also knit a baby sweater and hat, but boobies are involved there, you know.
And thanks to lovely readers of this blog like Jodi, Suzy, Roni, Debbie, and all the generous bidders who drove up the price, we've raised $235, which is awesome! But, Wendy (The Cuz) is still $215 shy of her $3000 fundraising goal. Let's help push her over the top, shall we?
This is it: the fifth and final auction for a boobie scarf, knit by me with a pattern by Jillian Moreno. Now that I'm finally done with these damn scarves, maybe I can finally knit something from her not-quite-so-new book, Big Girl Knits, which has been collecting dust on my desk while I knit boobs until my fingers bled.
Here's how it works: The auction starts immediately (Sunday, August 13th at 11:00 PM Central Daylight Time). Since this is the last auction, I'm going to run it a little longer. You have until Tuesday, August 15 at 12 noon Central Standard Time to place your bids. Bidding will start at $30. To place your bid, just post your amount in the comments. Bidding wars are highly encouraged.
The winner of the auction will donate the winning bid amount through Wendy's 3-Day donation page. Totally safe and secure - neither of us will see your payment info. Once you've donated, I'll send the scarf to you at my expense. 100% of your purchase goes to the Komen foundation.
Now, the details of this, the final scarf: It's 44" long and 4" wide, knit from Elsebeth Lavold Chunky AL yarn in "Midnight Sky". The yarn's 50% alpaca and 50% Peruvian wool. This is some soft, soft yarn. In fact, so soft that I had a hard time keeping it from sliding off my needles, making this, without question, the most annoying boobie scarf of all.
Unfortunately, because of the super-dark shade of blue, this is a particularly difficult scarf to capture in photos. Trust me, it looks just like the previous boobie scarves, only blue. Really dark blue. You can see all of the scarves right here.
Boobies love to shuffle two days late. Alas, no "My Humps". Or "Milkshake".
1. Train - Uncle Tupelo
2. 9 to 5 - Dolly Parton (Because it just wouldn't be a boobie scarf shuffle without her.)
3. Concrete and Barbed Wire - Lucinda Williams
4. Ain't Got No/I Got Life - Nina Simone (Although while listing all the body parts she's got, Nina doesn't mention her boobies. Win this auction, and you can sing this song and ad-lib because lemme tell you, you'll have 38 boobies in additon to however many you already have.)
5. A Long Walk - Jill Scott
6. English Civil War - The Clash
7. Just Friends - Charlie Parker
8. We are Underused - Pavement
9. Play the Music Toronados - The TSU Tornados
10. This Time - John Mellencamp
Posted by Robin at August 13, 2006 10:23 PM
Comments
Love the boobie scarves -- but living in Southern California, I have very little need for a scarf -- boobie or otherwise, so I just hopped on over and made a donation anyway.
Posted by: Kathy B. at August 14, 2006 12:59 AM
$50
Posted by: Zuly at August 14, 2006 08:21 AM
Another cool color!! Robin, you're so awesome!!! :)
I'm waitin' for cold weather to get here so I can show mine off!! (That's my "Satisfied Customer Testimonial")
Posted by: Debbie at August 14, 2006 09:42 AM
Zuly, I am not putting out for that!
Posted by: Wendy at August 14, 2006 04:55 PM
Nearly 24 hours into the auction and there's only ONE BID!?!? Come on, People!
Zuly, I'll totally put out for that.
Posted by: Robin at August 14, 2006 10:10 PM
Ack! is it noon?
$60
Posted by: Jane at August 15, 2006 12:00 PM
You win, Jane! And since I'll hand-deliver it to you (I'll be at the coffeehouse until 10 a week from Thursday. Does that work for you?), I'll donate the $5 I would have spent on a mailing box and postage, which brings the boobie scarf total to an even $300.
Thanks to all who participated!
Posted by: Robin at August 15, 2006 02:37 PM
$300 is amazing. So freaking amazing.
Thank you SO MUCH.
Posted by: Wendy at August 15, 2006 02:51 PM
Yay! I'll program it into my cell phone to hop up there next week--LMK if you hop over this direction before then.
Posted by: Jane at August 16, 2006 01:12 PM
