A fun aspect of economic recession has been the incentive it provides to make things for myself. For some time I've wanted a skunk sporran, and a local trading post happened to have a nice pelt for $9.00. I bought an affordable cantle from SWK and found a discarded leather briefcase. Here are all the components, below:

Here's how the front looks finished:
View from the back...

Interior cloth lining I glued in...

And here's how it looks with my IOS kilt

One side looks larger in this photo, but I sewed a little "pucker" in there and it's symmetrical now. Being thrifty is fun--learn to do more than I thought I could!