The Great Scarf Auction

[bandgeek]

Saturday, September 17, 3:00 pm

The auction has closed! (A bit early, I know, but I'm leaving for the weekend in a couple of hours.)

Thank you all so much for volunteering your bids, pimpage, skills, and general good vibes to this little project. We've raised $190 for hurricane relief!

And the biggest thanks, of course, go to bookworm_myrtle, ezagaaikwe, and dawnydiesel, who won

Comments

[bandgeek]

Great idea -- thanks!

In general, I don't often run into scarf patterns that I can't handle, mostly because it's a somewhat restricted medium. But if I had a quarter for every afghan pattern I couldn't even understand ...

*g*

[thisficklemob]

I'd like to do this too, if there's interest. I'm also a beginner, so your disclaimer would apply to me as well. And I think starting off with one scarf would be wise in my case, so I don't get too many projects going at once. I've done this crochet pattern before, and it works well with a variegated color yarn. I can also knit a scarf, if someone found a pattern in knit they wanted.

Likewise, I'd be willing to take exact yarn/color/pattern requests, but I'd also be willing to take a request like, "one of those fuzzy shiny boa-looking scarves," or, "wool, narrow, ribbed, dark blue." Then I could hunt down some pattern possibilities online, and the winning bidder could either choose or leave it up to me. I'd also be willing to buy a pattern, if the bidder had a copyrighted-for-sale one in mind.

Perhaps the easiest place if someone wanted to specify an exact yarn in my case would be something I could get at WEBS. JoAnn's or Michael's would work too, (although my local Michael's has a limited yarn selection

[bandgeek]

Yes, yes, yes! *g*

I'll add your offer to the main entry. And I love the card idea. I think that'll really help to bring people in, too.

Wheeeee! ::twirls you::

[desdemonaspace]

I like the thought of a scarf in exchange for a donation to the Humane Society. I feel for the animals, I really do. (Not that I don't feel for the people--it's just that I'm doing other things for people.)

How do I do this? Do I start bidding here? If so, $50. Something pretty in warm colors: corals, peachy-pinks, golds. Or a pretty green, or a mixture of blue and green. I have fake red hair.

Not too fuzzy, either. It gets in my eyes. So cheap yarn! Yay! No mohair of angora. Itchy.

[bandgeek]

Woohoo!

Looks like you'll win it, too -- you're only bidder #2.

How would you feel about a variegated homespun, like Lion's Homespun? It's an acrylic-polyester blend and quite soft, so it shouldn't itch you or get in your eyes. And it's a bit thicker than your standard worsted-weight, so it usually works up a bit better for scarves. It comes in a bazillion colors, so if you see one there you like, let me know! :)

Opening bid

[bookworm_myrtle]

I think I'm the first, but I'll bit $100 dollars on a lovely scarf. I love the idea of the card! My mom would absolutely love something like this.

Here we go!

[dualbunny]

Well, feel free to add me up there if you'd like. Uhm, a vid would be easy enough to list, but really, I'd be up for anything visually related. Digital or real painting of anything, photoshop art, you name it. But since mostly what I've shown online lately has been vidding, I don't know if people would take the risk on the other stuff without better references. ;D

I promise though, I can paint and stuff! I'm not a total hack anyway. :D

[dawnydiesel]

I'll try for 40.00. :-)

[bandgeek]

Woohoo! You have perfect timing, too. I'm leaving for the weekend in a couple of hours, so I think I'll just go ahead and close the auction with your bid -- I won't be around to close it at midnight, anyway.

Thanks so much for doing this!

Just out of curiosity, how did you find us? :)

[dawnydiesel]

I believe on a thread somewhere at fandom_charity.
Will the colors and patterns and such be a surprise or do I choose or what? I'm completely new to this, LOL.

[bandgeek]

Ah, that's right -- I totally forgot that I promoted the auction over there. Silly me. :)

You get to choose everything about your scarf. Yarns and patterns, all of it. (If you need some help narrowing it down, I can help you pick.) It's probably easiest if you just tell me what kind of colors, material, etc. you'd like, and we'll work it out. These are completely made-to-order.