Would you pay $15,000 for a Bernie doll?
Think all those Bernie Sanders memes are a hoot? Try feeling the Bern with crochet.
Corpus Christi’s Tobey King just broke the mold of the popular internet meme by crocheting an adorable acrylic and cotton yarn doll of the Vermont senator in his nowfamous coat and quirky brown mittens — a look that’s made the leap from Inauguration Day ensemble to Photoshopped sensation. She is selling that 9-inch doll on eBay, with the proceeds going to Meals on Wheels. The auction ends just before 2 p.m. Tuesday, and bids already have surpassed $15,000. “We’re all just looking for something to bring us joy right now,” King said. Call it patterning after her political hero. Sanders’ campaign store sold out of sweatshirts and T-shirts based on his viral photo to benefit Vermont’s Meals on Wheels and other Vermont charities. As for King’s doll, she simply tweaked an old pattern she’s used to make Sanders dolls for the 2016 and 2020 presidential election seasons.
King is selling the pattern for her new Sanders doll for $5 at her Etsy store, TobeyTimeCrochet.
“I really hope that he thinks this is something cool,” King said, “and that I’m doing something good.”