S.E.H Kelly

[sehkelly]

Here's the gansey in the Donegal lambswool (the same as featured last week on the watch caps).

Lively stuff!

 

[mke94]

The best customers are the ones who beg me not to send yet another expletive bag.

Honestly I have given a few away as they make for wonderful improvised gifts.

 

[Csus2]

I bought some SEH Kelly accessories as gifts for my family last year and each person got two of the tote bags because I have so many lol

 

[Csus2]

Here's the gansey in the Donegal lambswool (the same as featured last week on the watch caps).

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Lively stuff!

How does this wool feel compared to your usual superfine knitwear? Maybe I misunderstand how this works, but it seems to me that an 8ply knit in a coarser wool would result in a bulkier knit, no? Does it also affect the weight of the sweater?



Edit: oh dear. I assumed that, if I posted one comment immediately after the other, they’d merge. Well this is embarrassing.

 

[sehkelly]

How does this wool feel compared to your usual superfine knitwear? Maybe I misunderstand how this works, but it seems to me that an 8ply knit in a coarser wool would result in a bulkier knit, no? Does it also affect the weight of the sweater?

The Donegal lambswool is 1/3.8 Nm, and feels more thick and coarse compared to our usual superfine lambswool which is 1/14 Nm.

It is still beautifully soft, though — it just so happens that our usual lambswool sets an impossibly high bar, being so preposterously luxurious.

The Donegal knitwear is slightly heavier, I guess, but hardly perceptible when worn. We've carefully adjusted our knitting patterns to ensure that despite the thicker yarn, the final item maintain a similar size, shape, and overall look to the superfine lambswool ganseys that we have made in the past.

 

[heroicpenguin]

Paul, any chance in running the balmacaan in the grey donegal herringbone that was used in the SF version anytime soon? Or any type of grey donegal? Sadly, the browns this season aren't quite doing it for me

 

[happydayz1]

Talking of Balmacaans, it really is a lovely cloth.

 

[sehkelly]

Paul, any chance in running the balmacaan in the grey donegal herringbone that was used in the SF version anytime soon? Or any type of grey donegal? Sadly, the browns this season aren't quite doing it for me

I am sure we will get around to a grey-grey Donegal tweed one day. We have no plans (and our plans are not to revisit the herringbones from a few years back) but it seems inevitable at some point.

For next year we might try out again the heavy, bobbly tweed we used a few years back from the mill in the Mourne Mountains of Northern Ireland. For the balmacaan, I mean. And then maybe the Donegal tweed for the Ulster.

 

[sehkelly]

Talking of Balmacaans, it really is a lovely cloth.

Glad you like it. The fit looks great, too.

 

[heroicpenguin]

I am sure we will get around to a grey-grey Donegal tweed one day. We have no plans (and our plans are not to revisit the herringbones from a few years back) but it seems inevitable at some point.

For next year we might try out again the heavy, bobbly tweed we used a few years back from the mill in the Mourne Mountains of Northern Ireland. For the balmacaan, I mean. And then maybe the Donegal tweed for the Ulster.

Excited to see what it will be next year! The current colors are lovely, they're just not really for me. I really should've jumped on the green from last season, but I hesitated a bit too much

 

[RozenKristal]

Talking of Balmacaans, it really is a lovely cloth.

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Best balmacaan in the business!

 

[sehkelly]

Here — a few fairly recent items (including the most recent of all, the restocked crewneck in basalt grey).

 

[WaIIace]

Is there anyone who has bal in grouse brown and can share a photo or two to see the true color? I got it recently but am not sure if it is grouse brown or ashen

 

[sehkelly]

This from a few days back is ashen in the wild.

https://www.styleforum.net/threads/s-e-h-kelly.277070/post-11651991

 

[RozenKristal]

Is there anyone who has bal in grouse brown and can share a photo or two to see the true color? I got it recently but am not sure if it is grouse brown or ashen

It looks like grouse brown when I compare to mine.