Sheep/shop cleanout

**kevinkinney** · 13th April 08, 09:28 AM

Hello all,

Spring is coming, and I'm cleaning out stuff again. I found a forgotten bin deep under the cutting table. It was full of weird stuff.

These are the remainder of a run of chalk bags we made for climbers. I cut them from sheepskin, then added recycled fleece legs and a body, then leather eyes, ears, and a nose. I cut matching liners from laminated fleece, and set a grommet behind the ears for a draw cord that closes the inner bag with a cinch.

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I finished 1/2 of them with a stiffened piece of webbing at the lip, but there are 34 of them left unassembled.

I'm at a complete loss for further ideas, nor do I have time to tinker with them. Any bright ideas out there? Wanna barter for something fun? I've saved one for a new sporran. They're about the perfect size, though the orientation of the mouth is straight up, not facing down like a full animal mask. Warning!- this is thick sheepskin. There will be fluff involved.

Cheers,

Kevin.

**Bugbear** · 13th April 08, 09:32 AM

Turn them into sheep bonetts...

With the little legs sticking up in the air and the sheep head sticking out up-side-down in the front.

**ChattanCat** · 13th April 08, 10:14 AM

Mittens?

**ChattanCat** · 13th April 08, 10:15 AM

I can't say I've seen any fluffy sheep skin sporrans. What if you gave them a hair cut?

**fluter** · 13th April 08, 08:28 PM

Originally Posted by ChattanCat

I can't say I've seen any fluffy sheep skin sporrans. What if you gave them a hair cut?

No? check here and here
from about the time you and I came aboard...

**ChattanCat** · 14th April 08, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by fluter

No? check here and here
from about the time you and I came aboard...

Yup, I remember those. I thought these have a chance of being more, shall I say, traditional? Those are definately a "funny" sporran.

**kevinkinney** · 14th April 08, 08:14 PM

Hello all,

I think I'll steer away from Sporran making.

If I were to make sporrans, I'd buy up whole herds of vanquished Beanie Babies, and corners the kids market. There must been millions of those lying under glass.

Maybe some purses.

Kevin.