It is very difficult to find proper Pikachu amigurumi pattern. Nevertheless, I found one in Japanese language. With a little help of google translate, I managed to understand instructions. I used the Google translate app that enables you to take the photo of the written area and than it translates it.
This Pikachu is 18 cm long. I crocheted it with 3.0 mm hook.

Materials you will need with this amigurimi are:

yellow and black  yarn,
brown, yellow and red felt sheets (alternative: crochet felt parts)
and a hot glue gun (alternative: you can do the sewing, so glue wont be needed)

For the right size of its tail and other felt parts, it is important that you print out the pattern (especially page two with cutouts) over A4 size paper, and to put settings to Fill paper before printing, so that the entire pattern  comes out in proper size.  Otherwise, the pattern paper will come out smaller than it should be.

For my Pikachu, I didnt do feet and hands. Also for the nose and eyes I used nail polish. Also, I did make mistake with the tail positioning, but I was too lazy to flip it over.

For this amigurumi it is very important to sew stitches around neck and in leg areas. The way you tighten your stitches will determine the shape of your Pikachu. Unfortunately, I made it too tight I am not pleased with the result.

Pikachu amigurumi

Pikachu crochet

Pikachu amigurumi

Back side Pikachu amigurumi

Spider plant is excellent plant for those who are not very familiar with plant maintenance. It is easy to keep alive and it looks absolutely amazing. My spider plant upgraded my book shelf with style and elegance.

Spider plant decor

 

For the purpose of making a mobile for my baby I decided to crochet some otaku elements. I will do separate post on finished mobile but here I present to you my finished Jigglypuff.

I did it with a help of this tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFr-uZ3yCZo

Only difference is that I sewn felt pieces instead of just leaving them glued on the body. One thing that I discovered during the work is that it very practical to glue the pieces before sewing them, because they neatly stay in place.

Jigglypuff crochet

Jigglypuff amigurumi

Jigglypuff crochet

I recently moved into my house and I tried to make my living room as nice as possible and on the budget.
The white bookshelf made my father. Also small shelves for picture display were made by my father. It used to be wood color but I repainted it. Also gray sofa was made by my mother in law who is professional seamstress.  When we bought the house the sofa was already included but it was really old and dirty so she up-cycled the sofa with new fabrics and fillings.
There are still a lot of details that need to be added but I wanted to present a REAL actual home, not some fancy sterile room that works only for photographing.
I know that my living room does not have enough of expected Scandinavian minimalism but I still tried to incorporate grayish tones and simplicity when it comes to furniture design. Also, I think that plant give special flare to the decor and I plan to have more. 

My living room has open concept kitchen and dining room included. So I photographed the room from my kitchen. The room is not big for US standards, but for European homes, it has normal size. 

 Here are some before photos:
The fist photo is how the living room used to look and on the other photo you can see previous look of the sofa.

And here is improved version of the living room and the sofa.

European living room

Scandinavian style simple living room

Open concept small kitchen and living room

Green and red baby jacket

Baby crochet cardigan

 jacket that is inspired by Christmas season.
This is a variation of baby cardigan that I found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFHlCw9KY8Y

Only changes I made was doing only double crochets on sleeves and than ending with single crochets and bubble stiches.

The rest I did as the tutorial says. I think that the colors are quite in the Christmas spirit.

Granny square baby cardigan

Granny square baby cardigan

Collar of baby cardigan

I present to you very elegant baby (6-12 months) cardigan. For this cardigan I made total of 14 small granny squares. I arranged them in two rows. Between them i did 5 rows of double crochet. When i finished my cardigan I made collar. Collar is 47 sc long and I did one row dc and two rows sc, total of three rows. I attached It with sewing needle.
Granny squares are made with 3,5 mm hook.
I made magic ring and inside 8 dc (first chain + seven).
Second row: change yarn and then I did.
-chain four + 2 triple crochet + chain twice
-3 double crochet+chain twice
-3 triple c. + ch. tw.
-3 double c. +ch. tw.
-3 triple c. +ch tw
-3 double c. + ch. tw.
-3 triple c. + ch.tw.
-3 double c. + ch. tw.
-slip stich in last chain of first tripple crochet


Round the square you should have 40 stitches. 10x10x10x10

My method is not the best when joining the squares because I had to connect eleven stitches not 10 because of the distribution of the dc. and triple crochets. But it is not noticeable.

I added additional rows of single crochets on the edges and that made my cardigan suitable for the baby of 7 months. If you want to make it smaller just dont add these single crochets.

To make it nice and neat, I ironed the work.

Rib crochet cowl men