Tweed Sporran

[GRKilt]

Last weekend, I made a tweed sporran. I traced the pattern from another sporran, and then modified the size face to accomodate the dire wolf. I bought a secondhand jacket and cut the body of the sporran out of one of the sleeves. I used a heavy interfacing layer to give it some structure, and black duck cloth for the interior lining.


The dire wolf is based on the house symbol for the Stark family from Game of Thrones. I am quite proud of it, as I never did any embroidery before. I am calling this my fall sporran, because, you know, winter is coming.


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On the interior, I added a pocket large enough for my wallet and cell phone. I also added a pen hanger designed so you can get at the pen without opening the sporran.

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Everything went well until I asked my wife to stitch the gusset to the back. I thought the tweed gusset may not be strong enough, so I added a layer of duck to reinforce the bottom. The sewing machine had a problem going through two layers of tweed, two layers of duck, and the interfacing. The back ended up a bit wrong.


If I were to try this again, I would use a lighter fabric to reinforce the gusset, rather than duck.