about millie

Hello and welcome! I’m Millie and I’m the designer behind the screen.

I’ve been knitting and crocheting since my grandmother taught me as a child. She was born in the 1920s on a rural farm and taught me to knit in the days before the internet, so a lot of my initial knitting was going off extremely sparse patterns (anyone else remember those single page patterns at Michaels?) and reverse engineering. In college I taught my friends to knit and discovered the magic of local yarn shops. When I later become a mother, I found myself knitting for myself, my husband, and my three kids—all of us with individual body types. I would see a sweater in a store or on Pinterest and make it in my own way. I was still using the skills my grandmother taught me when people started requesting patterns. And thus, Millie Murphy the knitwear designer was born.

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Thank you so much for stopping by.