Buttonhole project - Participation Stitch

In Participation Stitch it is my intention is to collaborate with volunteers to create a contemporary response to the stitching of the buttonholes by the mice in the story of the Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter. I am keen to work people who would like to share the skill of hand stitching buttonholes. I am planning to gather twenty-one volunteers to stitch one buttonhole each on 4 June. All volunteers will need to be prepared to be filmed as the event will be edited into a short film. The filming will take place at 44AD, Abbey Street, Bath on Thursday 4 June – 10.30am to 4pm The idea for the stitching event is a development from my films (see Thinking Stitch - http://vimeo.com/115214439). In these works, two women meet for the first time and during their conversations they talk about their connections to the story of the Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter.