I fussed around with fabric placement and positioning and managed to cut a partial block. There is another round of triangles after this, but I'd run out of fabric so I didn't bother with them.

It went together easily enough, but my seam allowance is a bit too scant. The next round of triangles doesn't quite meet the intersection of seams on the previous rounds. I just need to add a few more threads into that seam allowance.

It's not a big deal, but it makes the block look a bit spikier than I'd like.

I did a lot of easy sewing at night, just feeding these squares through the machine. I'm trying to whittle down the scraps and this block uses a satisfying amount of a 2.5" strip.

These Happy blocks require a 4.5" square and I can't always get that from a scrap. I'll go to my FQ stash and cut strips for more blocks, as these are quicker than the square within a square blocks.  And I want to do a Potato Chip quilt soon, so I need a lot of 2.5 x 4.5"  bricks for that.

Sometimes when I'm sick of piecing or cutting I just pick up a little project that needs no concentration. We have baskets of offcuts from our customers' backings; no one has ever asked for these to be given back with the quilt. We could just throw them away, but there's a lot of useable fabric in between the stitching. So I'll sit down with a few strips and a seam ripper and take out the quilting stitches.

There's way too much fabric here to just ditch it. This was from the backing of the last huge quilt I did. The lady who pieced it for her granddaughter was just so over the whole thing, she wanted nothing to do with the leftovers 😄

These will go into string blocks, or eye-spy blocks; we don't have a lot of childrens fabrics in our stashes, so ones like this are always welcome.  Another customer always uses Tilda or William Morris for her backings, so when I've unpicked those I can put them straight into the scrap drawers.  It's a nice little bonus, and it keeps a little more fabric out of landfill.