Cornelia Tuttle Hamilton

Teaches at The Yarn Company

There are painters and crafters on both sides of her family, but Cornelia Tuttle Hamilton has applied her talent in combining colors and structure to designing handknits. Hamilton’s artistic background began in her childhood and she started selling her creations in her mid-teens. A true multi-crafter she is proficient at embroidery, macramé and crochet but finally settled on handknitting at the age of 22. Her knitting career started in New York where she developed her talent during the early 80’s. There she designed for the knitting magazines and a private clientele as well as sold her handknits to better boutiques in Manhattan. The high point of her time in NY was a handknit collection under her own label that was sold to select boutiques in 20 states from Florida to Alaska. The move over the Atlantic to Mariefred, Sweden gave her the peace and harmony to raise a family and develop her business and artistic creativity even further. Cornelia has written numerous articles on Swedish knitters and knitting. She has 12 pattern books to her name, including Noro: Meet the Man was published by Soho Publishing in the fall of 2009. A new booklet, Reflections, featuring the Poems Collection from Universal Yarn will be released in August.