DIY--Sporran help--

[Kilted Rogue]

Hey Rabble
I am working on my 1st DIY Sporran and i have come to an impass. I have made my sporran from eyeballing the ones ppl here have shown. The pattern is based on a Rob Roy Style. as you can see from the pictures i don't have a piece for the top flap.

for assistance sake i will number the pieces from top left to right
1) back panel with stiffener 2)front panel with stiffener
3) the gusset.

I plan on gluing the pieces together and then stitching them. i am beginning to question if i have the proportions correct. What to use for a top flap.

I am working with suede and some natural belly leather.

( the size is a little small, I plan to use it for a small bag and make a larger one as soon as i have the kinks worked out.)

[DWFII]

I think your best bet is to get a copy of Thompson's "So you're Going to Wear the Kilt." He has a rough schematic of a serviceable Rob Roy sporran in the back of the book. Ihe critical thing, for your purposes is that he gives dimensions as well as instructions. I made this one using his layout...

[Kilted Rogue]

Thats the look i was going for. i am asking for the book for the holidays but, mmm patients right now is not one of my virtues. the lack of Sporran is holding up my kilt wearing..

Thank you

[DWFII]

Hey, I know the feeling. I don't want to infringe on Thompson's copyright, so I'll just tell you the dimensions I used (mostly the same as Thompson but not exactly)/

My pouch was a chopped off circle nine inches in diameter across and eight inches top to bottom--you need two, front and back. I also added an inch and a half at the top to fold over. To clarify, it's really shaped like a "U"--it's nine inches wide even at the top edge.

My gussets were three inches wide and an additional inch and a half was allowed for a fold over there too. This foldover helps to reinforce the area through which you will thread your lace or braid or whatever.

My front stiffener was 6.75" long and 2.5" wide, split to six ounce, skived (beveled) on the bottom edges, and covered on the inside.

The flap is a five inch circle attached to a five inch by two and a half wide rectangle that widens, as it gets closer to the circle, to about 3 inches. This is all cut as one piece from saddle or belting leather (like your stiffener) and split to about 5 or six ounce and then covered . There is no back stiffener, the rectangular part of the flap is the back stiffener.

I put my button too high. Ideally it should adhere to...what do they call it?...the "Golden Mean" and be one-third the diameter of the circle from the bottom edge. I knew that but I just buzzed right through it without thinking [doh!]

Good luck! Post photos of your results.