article_snippet: A Queensland retiree has travelled across Australia knitting fake breasts for cancer survivors and documented A Queensland retiree journey in a series of scenic photographs.
article_snippet: Retiree Dawn Toomey, 69, from Deception Bay, north of Brisbane, drove around Australia with A Queensland retiree husband Ray for three months last year sightseeing and making prostheses – called 'Knitted Knockers' – to be donated to women who have undergone mastectomies.
article_snippet: Retiree Dawn Toomey, 69, travelled across Australia knitting fake breasts for cancer survivors .
article_snippet: Ms Toomey got the idea from Ms Toomey daughter, who read an article about the charity Knitted Knockers Australia and suggested Ms Toomey get involved .
article_snippet: Ms Toomey Ms Toomey got the idea from her daughter, who read an article about the charity Knitted Knockers Australia and suggested she get involvedthe charity Knitted Knockers Australia .
article_snippet: In three months Ms Toomey Ms Toomey knitted 128 breasts, and after returning home to Queensland Ms Toomey set up a local branch of the charity Knitted Knockers Australia.
article_snippet: The very first person I gave a set of prostheses to was my friend Brenda, Ms Toomey had been wearing a heavy silicon prosthesis,' Ms Toomey said. '
article_snippet: When I actually gave Ms Toomey a set of knitted knockers
article_snippet: Ms Toomey was just in tears. '
highlights_snippet: Dawn Toomey travelled Australia knitting fake breasts for cancer survivors .
  