The Story Behind the Name

The history of the title The Gandolf of Knitting was requested by a few of the faithful. For one time only, we present you with the background info:

“Ok so we were at Stitch and Bitch and there was a media person interviewing us about knitting etc. This was about 6 months into the s'n b at lettuce knit so we'd had a lot of media coverage and we were pretty jaded and kind of acting like, “oh yeah whatever another person writing an article on knitting.” I don’t even remember what publication it was for.

[Denny says this to me in a voice that suggests she's been in so many magazines that it would be impossible for her to keep them all straight. She is popular.]


So I thought: "You poor dear, ill teach you how to knit." She was the first reporter who came to the place who wanted to learn how to knit. So I sat beside the poor dear and took her under my wing and taught her how to knit. And what does she do in the article? She calls me the Gandolf of Knitting.

I read the article and ran up to the bathroom and looked in the mirror - my hair was turning grey! Who knew?!? The name stuck. Everybody who read the article thinks it fits. Gandolf of Knitting.