Finished Saoirse!

In the process of knitting the Saoirse (with deserved capital letter) I became completely obsessed. It’s a huge undertaking, using the better part of 11 balls of yarn…

But looking at it now, and wearing it, I would say absolutely that I don’t regret it at all.

At one point before the last increase round (with 1500-1600 stitches on the needle) I actually broke the knitpro cable, I got a replacement from the shop, no problems, but they said they hadn’t seen that before. The metal just “slipped” of the cable. Apparently I had something too heavy on the needles. And even with the longes cable the stitches were scrunched up pretty badly, especially after the last increase… when each row took more than 1.5 hours to complete!

The first time I wore it was at a party, and getting compliments on your clothing is especially fun when you get to say “yeah, I made it myself”

And after finishing this monomentus project, instead of starting something small and portable started knitting a sweater..