IT may look good enough to eat but this wedding cake could really pull the wool over your eyes.

More than 100,000 stitches and hours of painstaking work have gone into this amazing knitted creation, made by Sheila Carter from Beauworth Avenue in Harefield, Southampton.

The couple on top may look familiar – it’s the woolly version of soon-to-be-married Prince William and Kate Middleton.

Mrs Carter, 74, says the 3ft tall wedding cake has definitely been a labour of love, but incredibly has only taken her two months to make.

She said: “I’ve been doing it for about three hours a day.

My husband’s moaning that he hasn’t had a cooked meal for two or three weeks.

“I’ve knitted lots of cakes for my granddaughters before and I just thought – I’m going to knit a wedding cake one day.

“There’s no pattern, I just made it up.

“There must be about 300 flowers and that’s what really took the time.

“I should think in each little flower there’s probably a couple of hundred stitches.”

Three boxes were used as bases for the cake tiers, before being covered with white woolly “icing” and each flower was individually knitted and sewn on.

Right down to the final touches, Mrs Carter says she’s tried to make the couple on the cake as lifelike as possible.

She said: “When I started I hadn’t really thought about who was going to be on top – but now it’s obviously William and Kate.

Since retiring from running grocery shop Melchet Stores in Melchet Road, Mrs Carter has knitted everything from birthday cakes to a cauliflower for her seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild to play with.