thought I'd try my hand with rabbit fur

[druid]

Well as luck would have it, my sister brought over her childhood rabbit fur coat for any one of my two youngest daughters to wear. Neither of them wanted to wear it...lol. It's old but in nice shape...however real fur is not their thing...so I was thinking - rather than throw it out I'd cut off an arm and see how a sporran might look.

Here's the "before":
Outside:

Inside:


Almost done:




inside "hanger" reinforcement piece:


Inside shot:



I removed the gold liner and that revealed that the skins were sewn to a canvas backing/base cloth.

This is the shoulder of the coat arm and you can see that I simply tucked under the 'outer/top' part of the shoulder of the sleeve to make the bottom.

I made two flap covers of the same leather - about 12oz each and stitched them together around a short length of fur. These are sealed inside with ModPodge to make it stiff and glued together in the center of the flap.

As you can see, I'm not quite done trimming the edge of it (the flap) and I will look around Celtic Fest this weekend for a nice god Triquetra or Celtic Cross jewelry piece to mount directly in the center. I may burnish the edges instead of wrapping them with other leather and resewing...or I may use matching waxed sinew to cross-whip stitch the edge...not sure what I want to do yet.

[battlechaser]

PETA officially hates you now.

As always good job, in fact.. from now on I'm just going to type DITTO instead of this sentence.

[DFSniper]

wow, the prisoners actually behave themselves long enough to get some sewing done? very nice job, paul.

[Critical]

"there goes Peter Cottontail,
swinging like he's Druid's tail
chopity chop chop look at what Druid made."

[DFSniper]

omg! im trying so hard not to bust out laughing in the library right now!!!!!!

[battlechaser]

I was thinking... that should be quite good for keeping the "boys" warm for winter.

Just so long as the next post isn't a rabbit fur thong though...

[ferret15]

for whatever reason I am always just a bit afraid of opening up your threads... especial since i am never sure what could be behind them.


Nice work.

[druid]

Originally Posted by battlechaser

PETA officially hates you now.

As always good job, in fact.. from now on I'm just going to type DITTO instead of this sentence.

No additional bunnies died in the construction of this sporran.....




...however small game season is around the corner and I'm lusting after some rabbit stew

and thanks...lol.

Originally Posted by DFSniper

wow, the prisoners actually behave themselves long enough to get some sewing done? very nice job, paul.

I'm off for 4 days so I can go to celtic fest this weekend. The prisoners are lucky I don't have a sporran made from THEM

Originally Posted by Critical

"there goes Peter Cottontail,
swinging like he's Druid's tail
chopity chop chop look at what Druid made."

dude.....I frikkin almost spit my frikkin coffee at the frikkin monitor.....LMAO

Originally Posted by battlechaser

I was thinking... that should be quite good for keeping the "boys" warm for winter.

Just so long as the next post isn't a rabbit fur thong though...

The wool of the Kilt will keep the boys warm...

and a thong? Neh...I run commando so there's no need for a thong...

Originally Posted by ferret15

for whatever reason I am always just a bit afraid of opening up your threads... especial since i am never sure what could be behind them.
Nice work.

LOL......why? I'm.......ok

......::no he's not::.....Yes I am....::shuddap dude, yer fried::....Bite me....::grrrrrrrrrrrrrOWROWROWR::.....OUCH stop it.....::mmmm tasty::......

[DFSniper]

Originally Posted by druid

LOL......why? I'm.......ok

......::no he's not::.....Yes I am....::shuddap dude, yer fried::....Bite me....::grrrrrrrrrrrrrOWROWROWR::.....OUCH stop it.....::mmmm tasty::......

LMAO!!

Originally Posted by Critical

"there goes Peter Cottontail,
swinging like he's Druid's tail
chopity chop chop look at what Druid made."

i just realized that i was singing the Hippitus Hoppitus song from South Park on my way to the library BEFORE i read this thread this morning!

[battlechaser]

Originally Posted by druid

The wool of the Kilt will keep the boys warm...

and a thong? Neh...I run commando so there's no need for a thong...

Who said anything about wearing it under the kilt...

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