Cotton & String, Brieana’s stitching brand, is based in Calgary, Canada, where her focus has been to provide hand-stitched portraits to families and friends, who’ve all requested the personal touch!
Brieana’s custom pictures are stitched using both cross stitch and embroidery techniques – something she discovered early on in her family portrait journey. “I think only my first two family portraits were entirely cross stitches with no embroidery, and since then, I have never done a portrait that didn’t combine the two,” she explains. “I was initially inspired by my now friend, Kristi, from @familystitch who was one of the first stitchers I ever saw combine the two art forms. It’s not really something that can be taught in my opinion as so much of the embroidery embellishments such as…
