Originally this project was to be all my doing. My wife was afraid she would be drafted into doing the sewing. Later, I found out the time savings if I have an extra person to help cut panels. So Val helped out when I cut panels. By myself, it took me 20 minutes to cut a panel. With Val, I could cut 12 of the same panels in less than an hour. The time savings come from not having to run around this massive table to align the fabric. Below is a picture of her measuring.

This is a picture of Val getting ready to double the fabric back over on itself, so I can cut both ends at once. I did all of the cutting so I would only have myself to blame if I ruined a panel.

I stored each of the gores in its own plastic bag. Below are the twelve gores in their bags.