Less than 90

More than 90, less than 90, that was the most uttered phrase as we (me, my brother, and the engineer) have been building these frames. The strecher bars turned out to be not quite as precision-cut as advertised, and we have had a bear of a time getting and keeping any of the corners square. Square corners = proper fit. As you can see these panels are meant to be hung together with no outer frame around the panel; once the canvas is streched around them individually they will comprise a single unit. Making sure all the corners were square became fantasy the more we struggled with that first one. Tap tap here, pull here, push it in here, and the steel square was passed around so many times between the 3 of us it was rather amazing to see our engineer finally slide it under the frame (raised on blocks) 6 feet to either me or my brother on the other side (perhaps I'm easily entertained...). Eventually we decided that only the inside corners need to be square, and the outside corners could just do whatever. Well, there was not much of a choice!

The frame building is half way done. After this we will have a merry time streching canvas, then priming and sanding. After that my help goes on hold, as the next steps will be transfering the drawing via projector, in parts, on each appropriate panel. Then painting (Lord give me strength) and then, and THEN, the committee comes back in to take down the wood facing from the church's back wall, the engineer installs the hanging system, and the mural is hung. I feel that by hashing out the steps needed to get this project finished over and over, though maybe it is not very exciting to read, will help make this seem do-able to me. How do you eat an elephant?...