This print is a part of the series, 'Lessons Learned from Six-year Olds'. It is a limited edition of 35 prints, each individually printed by the artist.

It is a true story about “Ask and you shall receive”.

One day I was knitting squares to make a blanket for a grandchild expected to arrive soon. I asked my six year old granddaughter, to help me organize the squares before stitching them together.

As she was trying out different arrangements based on colours or patterns, she innocently asked me if I had made her a blanket when she was born.

I said, “No.”

She said very sweetly, “I wish I had one!”

I asked her if she would like me to knit one for her now. Her face lit up as she nodded yes. I asked her which colours would she like?

She promptly proceeded to draw a picture of the blanket with specific colors she wanted. And as you can imagine, she didn't know how to spell some colour names, such as, turquoise. Together we named all the colours of her choice.

Here comes the corker. Then she said, "I want a dinosaur in the middle." I said, ''I don't know if I can knit a dinosaur in the middle."

Have you ever encouraged a small child by saying, ‘You can do it’ ?

Well, I certainly have, and now the same thing was said back to me!

She looked at me with full confidence in my ability to do this little task and said, “You can do it!”

I couldn't disappoint her. So, I had to find a way to make that dinosaur in her blanket. Multiple attempts later, I did embroider a dinosaur on the corner of her blanket.

The blanket was knitted and given to her for her seventh birthday.

The moment she saw the dinosaur, she said, “Oh Baboo!” and from that day on Baboo keeps her warm and cozy. This is the blanket that she sleeps with every night. This is the blanket that travels everyehwere with her.

50% from the sale of this print is donated to a nonprofit organization, Atlantic Wellness Community Centre.

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