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My son Jack is a Pokemon-aholic. For his birthday this year I secretly knit him this pillow. He loved it from the moment he received it.

I knit a red background and duplicate stitched the Pikachu rather than actually knitting it as part of the pattern. I wanted to make sure that it would hold up to child's play.

Because it was made for a child, I decided to use inexpensive cotton yarn that I purchased from Pat Catans. The red background, black outlines, and yellow "Pokemon" word are Lily Sugar 'n Cream 100% cotton yarn. The Pikachu was stitched from Reynolds Frisky 60% cotton, 40% nylon yarn (from a specialty yarn store) to give him a more furry look without overdoing it (fun fur would have been too much fur).

In the House

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