My first DIY sporran

[English Bloke]

That looks OK. I thought of having a bash with an old jacket but didn't due to the thickness issue. After seeing your go, I might give it another bash if I can locate a suitable jacket for chopping up. Also since I mentioned it in passing to her, my wife looks at me suspiciously everytime I go near anything made of leather. She's not keen... She's worried I'll wreck the dining table or worse, her sewing machine.

[NeightRG]

She's worried I'll wreck the dining table or worse, her sewing machine.

That's one thing I did appreciate about the thin garment leather - didn't even put a new needle in the machine and had no trouble getting through the leather. The tricky part was getting the feed dogs to grip it well. It was fine wherever I was sewing suede side out, but the the few places I had to sew right side out were tricky.