Lyn Sims, Fiber Artist
Pittsboro, NC 27312
bearandma@earthlink.net
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Elaine A. Rhoades Photography
Lyn Sims is a fiber artist who designs and knits high-end garments from sweaters to stoles, scarves, pillows, baby blankets, curtains and going anywhere that her imagination leads her. Currently, Lyn is being led deeper into knitting lace and knitted lace, inspired by the design of “holey work”.
Lyn has shown her works at Stitches West, trunk shows in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Chatham Arts Gallery and who won first prize in knitwear at the Chatham County Fair in 2009.
Currently, Lyn’s work can be seen at the Chatham Arts Gallery, on friends and family or on herself. Watch for her work in and around Pittsboro, especially in the near future when Hillsborough Street becomes the site of “Community Guerilla Graffiti”.
Lyn has studied under such knitting notables as Lily Chin, Sally Melville, Valentina Devine, Maureen Mason-Jamieson, Nancy Wiseman, Debbie Bliss and Ginger Luters. She has taught knitting at various yarn shops in the San Francisco Bay Area, at Against His Will in Siler City and currently leads the Chatham Community Crafters, a group that devotes the work of their hands to community needs.
Lyn was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma where her grandmother and mother taught her to knit in the time-honored tradition of generational instruction and encouragement. Lyn now lives in Pittsboro, and is owned by a yarn stash that is bigger than a bread box, but smaller than New Jersey.
