Social media algorithms have recently decided that I’m neurodivergent. I don’t know that this is actually true, but the posts aimed at neurodivergent people do speak to me, and it’s been interesting to read them all.

It is through these posts and articles that I recently learned of the term “decision fatigue” … which is something that, without even knowing what it’s called, I’ve been trying to work around for years.

This is why I have everything from morning and evening routines to days-of-the-week outfits. It cuts down on the number of decisions that need to be made throughout the day.

But in the world of quilting, I sometimes struggle to get started on something because I can’t make a decision about which way to go. For example, you may remember the multi-year saga about how wide of a border to put on the blue swirls quilt.

Or the endless agony over choosing the perfect fabric for the center block.

Or the intense drama over how to assemble my first intermediate difficulty block.

And it turns out that the fabric used in this triangle block is not immune to my decision-making dilly-dallying either.

From the very first block I made from this red and white fabric, I struggled with the fact that the red leaves in the print match too well with the red background fabric. It ends up just looking like the seam is crooked.

The quilt has a whopping twenty blocks made from this fabric, and on every single one, I dragged my feet about how to handle it. And all the indecision about what to do definitely made me fatigued.

So now, here, on my twentieth and final block with this fabric, I just tried to go with the flow and cut out the pieces any which way, without worrying whether leaves were going to fall on the seam line.

And you know what? It turned out to be not too bad. And it certainly took up less space in my busy brain.

Now I’ll make one last decision on this block: to call it complete. On to the next block!