The needlepoint stitching commenced in March of 1984 and continued until February 1990 thanks to Janet Besmer, Ruth Britton, Helen Dixon, Mary Franck, Helen Gerberich, Beverly Hays. Betty Lawrence, Marguerite Livshin, Bobbi Lombardo, Erma Mowers. Julie Osmun-Giles, Margaret Painter, Sue Parry, Winnie Price, Kathy Schultz, Lynne Shaffer, Emily Sypher, Julia Trevethick, Gussie Zimmerman and Ethel Zapf. One estimate is that it took about 18000 hours of work