10 November 2006

Pure Fabrication

Poppy Treffry Accessories

A love fling gone awry. Drama with your work nemesis. A stand-off with your BF.

When it comes to venting to friends, you’ve been quite an earful lately. (Talk about take, take, take.)

Get in touch with your brighter side (and send a few thank-yous) with a little something by artist Poppy Treffry, who hand-embroiders quirky accessories from her workshop in a Cornwall fishing port — enchanting keepsakes like tea and egg cosies appliqued with ‘I’m a little teapot’ or ‘speckledy egg’, as well as handbags and cushions adorned with random images and words to make you smile. And everything’s from an equally happy-making £5.

Treffry takes commissions for any object in the collection in any fabric you desire. Fancy your own image sewn onto a handbag? Why, go ahead.

Consider it a charming way to show your friends you can give back the love.

Which, of course, was always there for the taking.

Available at Liberty, Regent Street, W1B 5AH (020 7734 1234 or liberty.co.uk); online at poppytreffry.co.uk.