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 with 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 Thinking Stitch. 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.