Almost Burn Grow Slide

I've been steaming ahead on completing my Climate Change challenge quilt for BAM's group entry to the San Mateo County Fair. It's called "Burn, Grow, Slide". Two out of three sections have been zig-zagged down but not completely quilted yet.

This is the "Slide" section.

I chose a lot of print fabrics that reminded me of rocks and the various mudflows, upturned earth, general higgledy-piggledy chaos.

This is the "Burn" section. It shows a close up of a redwood tree that's been burned but is still alive.

The red-orange browns are the interior bark of the redwood trees. The blacks and grays are the charred sections of exterior bark.

 The print on the bottom right looks like a fire might still be going, which was true for more than a year after our CZU fire. Deep fires in the many feet of redwood duff smoldering for that long kind of blew my mind.

Both of those two sections need more quilting. But first I have to assemble the center of the quilt.

I chose one of my blue hand-dyes for a sky background and then a brown print with some green to be the redwood trunk.

I am now reconsidering when to do the quilt stitching on the Burn and Slide sections. I may not want to quilt around the tree branches.

The intensely bright green is what happens when the redwoods have a great rain year, they put on a bunch of new growth in the early spring that is So Bright compared to the older growth.

This is only partially done, but I had to stop for the day. I thought an in-process picture would be good to check that I'm getting the image across.

I decided to use a background print that is various shades of green and brown to represent the mountain as seen behind the tree. This is what I see out my windows looking out at the mountain. The redwoods have lost many branches from the windstorm, so the mountain on the opposite side of our valley is more visible now.