{"id":86798,"date":"2025-12-31T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=86798"},"modified":"2025-12-30T18:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:20:16","slug":"memory-quilts-pay-tribute-to-yancey-county-youngsters-who-perished-in-hurricane-helene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/memory-quilts-pay-tribute-to-yancey-county-youngsters-who-perished-in-hurricane-helene\/","title":{"rendered":"Memory Quilts Pay Tribute to Yancey County Youngsters Who Perished in Hurricane Helene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Kathleen O. Brown<\/p>\n<p>Since Hurricane Helene struck Western North Carolina in September 2024, people have come together in myriad ways to help with recovery and healing in the aftermath of the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>About 30 members of Let\u2019s Sew, MadCo! responded stitch by stitch with the creation of three memory quilts that pay tribute to and capture the spirit of two young brothers who tragically perished in Helene. Founder Karen Governo Ingraham began a Facebook group for Let\u2019s Sew, MadCo! in August 2023, and there are now close to 600 members in that online community. Meetings of the group remain intimate in number, however. \u201cApparently, the community is interested in our community service efforts as well as our teaching sewing,\u201d Ingraham says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_86801\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86801\" class=\"wp-image-86801\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lets-Sew-MadCo-IMG_6110-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"429\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-86801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Let\u2019s Sew, MadCo!, artists<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mountain Breeze Preschool director Rachel Maietta, who had taught the boys at her Madison County preschool and kept in touch with the family through the years, had the idea of creating memory quilts for their father and grandparents as tributes to 9-year-old Felix and 7-year-old Lucas Wisely. The two brothers, their mother Alison Wisely and her fianc\u00e9 Knox Petrucci all lost their lives during Helene as they tried to evacuate from their home in Green Mountain, a community along the Toe River in Yancey County.<\/p>\n<p>Maietta had made a memory blanket from parts of her own children\u2019s clothing and says she shared that idea with Felix and Lucas\u2019 father Lance Wisely. Sometime in the spring, Wisely gave her a box of T-shirts, pajamas and other clothes of the boys\u2019 that were his sons\u2019 favorites and had special meaning to him.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Ingraham says she was approached by Maietta for assistance with the project. Members of the Madison County-based sewing group, who often participate in community service sewing projects, eagerly offered to begin work on the quilts.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_86800\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86800\" class=\"wp-image-86800\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lets-Sew-MadCo-image0-2-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lets-Sew-MadCo-image0-2-copy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lets-Sew-MadCo-image0-2-copy-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lets-Sew-MadCo-image0-2-copy-1024x976.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lets-Sew-MadCo-image0-2-copy-768x732.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lets-Sew-MadCo-image0-2-copy-810x772.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lets-Sew-MadCo-image0-2-copy-1140x1087.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-86800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Let\u2019s Sew, MadCo!, artists<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s Sew, MadCo! members dropped by my home and picked through the box containing the boys\u2019 clothing and chose items that spoke to them that they would make into quilt blocks,\u201d Ingraham says. \u201cSome of them were moved to tears. I feel that this project was more a labor of love\u2014a process of healing\u2014for our members rather than being looked upon as a community service project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The squares in the memory quilts celebrate the wonder and joy of the boys\u2019 childhood, reflecting Felix and Lucas\u2019 love of superheroes, Star Wars characters, dinosaurs, unicorns and more. For the quilt backs, members of Let\u2019s Sew, MadCo! used Baby Yoda and Minecraft sheets from the boys\u2019 beds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were both brilliant,\u201d Maietta says of Felix and Lucas. \u201cTheir imagination and sense of play was fascinating. They were always wearing costumes. If you knew them, you would understand how much these quilts represent them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Duncan says she had never sewn in her life until she took a quilting class last year in the Walnut community. After signing up for that class, she joined Let\u2019s Sew, MadCo!\u2019s Facebook group and then learned that members were making memory quilts for the boys.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_86803\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86803\" class=\"wp-image-86803\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lets-Sew-MadCo-image0-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lets-Sew-MadCo-image0-copy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lets-Sew-MadCo-image0-copy-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lets-Sew-MadCo-image0-copy-951x1024.jpg 951w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lets-Sew-MadCo-image0-copy-768x827.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lets-Sew-MadCo-image0-copy-810x872.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lets-Sew-MadCo-image0-copy-1140x1227.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-86803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Let\u2019s Sew, MadCo!, artists<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Duncan says the project had special, personal significance to her as she had been Felix\u2019s kindergarten teacher and Lucas had been in the classroom next door to hers. She says her work on the memory quilts was both bittersweet and therapeutic. \u201cThey wanted to learn everything and do everything,\u201d Duncan says of the brothers. \u201cThey were so full of life and wanted to grab hold of everything. They were wide open and loved telling jokes. They\u2019d walk into a room and it would light up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s Sew, MadCo! member Tabitha Shelton has been sewing for more than 20 years and sells her handmade Mimi\u2019s Creations at The Country Cupboard Vintage Market in Canton. Working on the memory quilts touched her heart, she says, and was also one of the most difficult projects she has ever worked on. \u201cThere were times that I went to pick up the boys\u2019 shirts and I couldn\u2019t bring myself to cut them,\u201d Shelton says. \u201cI had to lay them down and step away. I can\u2019t tell you how many times I hugged the shirts and sent up prayers for the family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s Sew, MadCo! members completed the three memory quilts in October. The following month, Maietta delivered them to Felix and Lucas\u2019 father and the boys\u2019 grandparents.<\/p>\n<p>Like others involved with the project, Ingraham says love went into every square of the quilts. \u201cI think it was cathartic for people who lived through Helene to create these in the boys\u2019 memory,\u201d she says. \u201cI was honored to be part of this creative process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information about Let\u2019s Sew, MadCo!, visit the group page on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/145422785284189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Hurricane Helene struck WNC, people have come together in myriad ways to help with recovery and healing. 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