Guided Growth

Yellow Bird Thread Works has been growing (Huge thank you to everyone who has supported and believed in this venture). As I look at what I am doing and I look at how other similar businesses are doing, I have to take a moment to reflect on my direction and my philosophies. After all, the point of doing this is to do it the way I want. I had myself thinking that I needed to be making higher volume of really consistent products. It was starting to stress me out. Each time I made a change in the design of a product, I felt like it was somehow an injustice to the things I had made previously because they were no longer consistent. They weren’t uniform. I was really beating myself up over these little things. Meanwhile, the thing that was really lifting me up and keeping me motivated was the fairly consistent stream of custom bags. I love making something unique for my customers. Those one on one projects got me thinking about why I started this in the first place. I don’t want to be a high volume factory. They exist and they fill a certain market. I am an artist and a creator. My designs will keep changing and evolving. I’ll never be compromising quality for quantity. I’m going to work at the pace I work at. I will continue to embrace growth and evolution in my designs and techniques. I hope these values come through to the people who care. I’m not sure if anyone actually reads these or not, but it’s good for me to get it out. -Brian