[Magdalen] Happy birthday, George!

[Sibyl Smirl]

Thanks, Lynn.  That's nice to know, and as they're drawings/paintings, 
not photographs, it's not that easy to tell without foreknowledge of the 
Mexican things.  And they'll still work as crochet motifs--nice 
cross-cultural or cross-craft.

On 11/2/15 1:04 PM, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
> The Google mast design today is actually Mexican paper flags... usually
> made of tissue paper and adorning Mex and Tex/Mex restaurants in the
> southwest and in Mexico. Normally they are a cut out design, not
> letterings. The Day of the Dead is VERY BIG in Mexico and with their
> scattered emigrants. They're usually about 12"x18" and hang close
> together as pictured, stretched across rooms and festooned in open areas
> above the crowds.
>
> here's one of many links  (loaded fast and you get the idea....)
> http://www.lunabazaar.com/multicolor-mexican-party-banner.aspx
>
> Lynn
>
> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>
> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have
> not a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You
> gave me." attributed to Erma Bombeck
> "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a
> talk by Richard Rohr
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Sibyl Smirl" <polycarpa3 at ckt.net>
> Sent: Monday, November 02, 2015 11:03 AM
> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Happy birthday, George!
>
>> On 11/2/15 9:38 AM, Charles Wohlers wrote:
>>> Today we celebrate the 200th birthday of George Boole. I’m very
>>> surprised that google.com has Day of the Dead, and not George Boole
>>> on their home page.
>>>
>>> So – raise a glass to George Boole, on whom your computer depends for
>>> its very being. Or don’t.
>>>
>>> Chad Wohlers
>>> Woodbury, VT USA
>>> chadwohl at satucket.com
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Those are actually neat, simple crochet patterns on the line, mostly
>> of the type called "filet crochet" -- the G could be any letter of the
>> alphabet, worked out on graph paper, for a whole sampler, or a simple
>> set of that appliqued to a garment, or worked into a garment, or lace
>> curtains or a curtain edging.  I've taken a screenshot of the google
>> page, to use for reference in my patterns the next time I want to do
>> something that uses that sort of thing.


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