Kay Lange
"Smoke and Fire (Whodathunkit)"

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Wise women embrace adventure!

I love hats! I wear hats and I make hats. I have worn hats to church because my mother ordered, “The good Lord deserves a hat once a week.” I have worn hats for sun, hats for warmth and hats for fun. When I was young, I was a dancer and I wore costume hats. I wore uniform hats as a flight attendant and golf and gardening hats in retirement.

BUT – my most memorable hat will always be my motorcycle helmet. Much to everyone’s surprise, I donned my first helmet in 2007 (at the ripe old age of 63), and rode on the back of a Gold Wing motorcycle from the beginning to the end of Route 66. Three weeks and 3,500+ miles from Chicago to LA is truly one of the best adventures of my life.

Whodathunkit? Smoke on the outside and Fire on the inside.

Wise women embrace adventure!

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Assembling Supplies	Laying out layers of silk roving	Laying out layers of silk roving
Laying out layers of silk roving	Showing inside color of helmet	Ready to apply solution
Applying solution to stabilize & harden silk	Covering "model" helmet with plastic wrap for moulding silk	Silk applied to model helmet

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