GOOOOOOD Morning!

I've been up since 0400 local BBQing some pulled pork for my dad for Father's Day. Since manning the grill only takes 10 minutes per hour, I've been spending most of the rest of that time working on these cursed petal folds.

After two more alterations to the paper patterns from the other day, I started in on leather.

The pieces I'm using are some old scrap I had, and not as thick as the new hide, but I'm going to have to skive some of the back off anyway to get it down to a foldable thickness and to make sure the targe doesn't stand off the face of the sporran.

Of course, the nature of leather, with it's thickness and 'give' tend to mess things up a bit, so I've done this twice... and I'm getting pretty close.



With one more adjustment to the raw size of the piece and a slight increase in the width of the fold (as well as some final shaping), I think we'll be right.

Once these few changes have been made and finalized, I'll cut a final pattern for this, both flat for the cut, and with a raised 'folding aid' to make sure both size and placement of the petal folds is consistent.

The rest of the pieces are essentially finalized in paper form and waiting to be given a last 'test-fitting' in leather before I start cutting up the good hide.

BTW: Thanks all for the continued encouragement and kind words.