I was at the Tandy store (Leather Factory) yesterday with my wife picking up some supplies for the saddle shop. I happened to see a small stack of odd looking pelts. I couldn't resist... I had to buy one.

This is a rabbit fur that's been dyed to look like leopard fur. For nine bucks, I had nothing to lose.




After drooling over Matt Newsome's bobcat sporran for some time (shown in this post), I'm thinking of doing something similar with this fur. Basically making another sporran like the one I made last year (shown below), with this rabbit fur covering the front panel, and making the braided leather cantle piece a slightly different shape so that it has a center 'point' on the bottom of the cantle.




What do you think? Worth the effort, or would it come out cheesy using this fur?