Making a Dress Sporran - Questions

[MacMullen]

I'll try and scan and upload somehow my cutting patterns - may take a day or two to figure it all out.

Thanks! Besides being very generous, that would be very helpful! Your generosity reminds me of that Coke Zero commercial where the researcher at Coca-Cola reveals the secret formula. Then they sack him, right before he reveals it.

Thanks also for your detailed answers to my other questions above.

If I did do the coyote, I would only use a bit of the pelt, although, I suppose the fur would be a bit long.

FYI, if you'd rather go with real fur check out eBay. Tanned rabbit pelts aren't expensive and I think most of the generic 'fur dress sporrans' we see in catalogs, on eBay etc. are rabbit. Skunk and muskrat pelts aren't bad either.

I was planning on getting a skunk pelt on eBay.

Hi Joel,

Do you have a picture of the leather one you made? Lets have a gander!
I like the Skunk project, has a good mmmm smell to it.

MrBill

They don't spray if you kill them properly. I'm assuming a professionaly trapped and tanned pelt would be odorless. Although, from dealing with my dog after her kills, Fabreze works wonders on skunk odor, even the oily, fresh from the skunk's butt stuff.

Probably the best pic of my first sporran is on my Christmas Party thread. I think I made it a little small, and it's just two pieces of leather cut to shape, sewn together, then turned rightside out, but I do like how it turned out. I also put a small pocket inside of it for my lighter and cigar cutter, as well as a quick link for my car keys.



My next leather sporran is going to be based on this sporran pattern.