Tweed Sporran

**GRKilt** · 13th October 13, 04:02 PM

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.

**piperdbh** · 13th October 13, 08:01 PM

It looks pretty nice to me. A pair of needle-nose pliers to hold the needle and a lot of hand-sewing might have been a better course of action for the sewing.

**knotty** · 13th October 13, 08:10 PM

Very nice indeed

**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.