It sat down yesterday and made a bunch of scrappy quarter log cabin using fabrics from my red scrap bag. I seem to have a lot of red fabric scraps, collected over the years.

These quarter log cabins are fun and easy to make and I pretty much chain piece the whole lot without cutting my thread until the last one is finished... and I don't press or trim them until the end. 

Yep, I know. Not the right way to do it, but it works for me.

Book 15/26 in my 2021 reading challenge was The Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall. I listened to this one as an audiobook and it was read by Claudia Karvan (an Aussie actress).

Imagining a near future Australia that is all too disturbingly familiar, The Mother Fault is an addictive thriller, a heart-pounding adventure and a moving portrayal of the lengths a mother will go to save her family. 

Mim’s husband is missing. No one knows where Ben is, but everyone wants to find him – especially The Department. And they should know, the all-seeing government body has fitted the entire population with a universal tracking chip to keep them ‘safe’.

But suddenly Ben can’t be tracked. And Mim is questioned, made to surrender her passport and threatened with the unthinkable – her two children being taken into care at the notorious BestLife.

Cornered, Mim risks everything to go on the run to find her husband – and a part of herself, long gone, that is brave enough to tackle the journey ahead.

From the stark backroads of the Australian outback to a terrifying sea voyage, Mim is forced to shuck off who she was – mother, daughter, wife, sister – and become the woman she needs to be to save her family and herself.

I really enjoyed this book. It is set in a world not too dissimilar from ours where climate change has altered the physical environment and technology is life. The country is controlled by a one party state and life is quite grim with the loss of privacy and personal freedom. 

The ending was twisty and fast and even though it ended, I think it left an opening for a continuation of the story. If you can find it, it's definitely worth a read.