I finally bought some size 11 dpns today so that I could start on this, my latest charity project.
Here's the bed so far.

I'm using a strand of Kureyon and Patons Classic Wool held together. After my partial skein of Noro runs out, I'll just be using two strands of Classic Wool. There isn't any spare eyelash yarn in my stash, so I'll just get that when I have a better idea of how this bed will look.