Tweed Sporran

**GRKilt** · 14th October 13, 05:23 AM

Great suggestion. Pliers, and maybe patience to do a better job.

On another note, the duck in the gusset is still pretty stiff. Should I have washed it to soften it up?

**flyrod6057** · 14th October 13, 06:41 AM

I think it looks great! Personally, I'm not a tweed sporran kind of guy, but I appreciate those that are. Your sporran looks quite well done. You should be proud!

**kiltedrennie** · 14th October 13, 01:34 PM

Great job! I love the embroidery!

I made a tweed sporran recently. I used flexible plastic grids as an interfacing layer between a duck cloth interior and tweed exterior to give the panels structure. The gusset was a double layer of duck cloth. The black duck cloth gave a nice contrast to the tweed. I washed the duck cloth in cold water but it didn't really soften it much.

The plastic reinforcing prevented machine sewing. I used a large needle and upholstery thread. It was just barely doable without pliers. As you can see from the photograph, I had a bit of trouble getting the back and front aligned properly while sewing the gusset on. Next time I'll sew from the very bottom outward toward the top up both sides with separate needles.

Unfortunately, it was lost while flying on business (long story). Someday soon I'll make another.

**GRKilt** · 14th October 13, 03:55 PM

Kiltedrennie: I actually was working from a blog post that sounds very much like what you describe. Is this you?

**kiltedrennie** · 14th October 13, 05:57 PM

Originally Posted by GRKilt

Kiltedrennie: I actually was working from a blog post that sounds very much like what you describe. Is this you?

Yep! I hope it was helpful.

**GRKilt** · 14th October 13, 07:25 PM

Originally Posted by kiltedrennie

Yep! I hope it was helpful.

Your instructions were excellent! That's I got the idea for the heavy interfacing. It fused well with the tweed, and was easy to get a needle through (except for sewing on the back). I have enough of the interfacing left to make a matching wallet.