Although I haven't built your boat, I'd suggest putting a few stitches in each end and getting them snug before doing the rest of the hull. This will ensure that your ends match up. If you started from one end you might find a slight mis-match once you got to the other end. It can be fixed, of course, by loosening a few wires and pushing/pulling the panels a bit, but you might as well try to avoid this extra work.

Dean

> I have my Mill Creek 13 to the point that I am ready to start stitching it
> together with 18 gauge copper wire. I know that I start with the bilge
> panels connected to the bottom panel but where do you start? Do you start
> stitching at the center and work out to the end of the panels or do you
> start at either end and work towards the other? The reason I ask this
> question is that I want it to come out correctly. Any advice will be
> appreciated. Thanks!!!