I find myself in very much the same situation, only I just picked up a Red Fox pelt, Maybe we should combine our thread along with anyone else "in progress" of making a semi-formal and formal dress sporran for the benifit of the membership. I have found that searching for this info in amongst the threads to be less than benifitial. If we get a truely hands on and instructional DIY thread going here, I'd ask the mods to make it a sticky.

Any thoughts?