Meet LuAnn and Ellen and Boomer with our newest addition Misha Star.



Lu Ann Wohlander is the Assistant Manager of the Mount Vernon Store and has been with the Boomers family for eight years. She started sewing in Middle school and created her own prom dresses in High School. She now sews and quilts when ever she can find the time. Sound Familiar? She purchased her first embroidery machine from
Sarah in 2000 after moving to Anacortes. Her Dad bought her first Serger as a gift, which was her introduction to us and, one year later on December 4th she went to work for Boomers. “I have made many great friends and enjoy seeing everyone at Boomers. Embroidery and Software are some of my favorite things. I have just added a puppy to my and Boomers family. She is Boomers little sister and she is named Misha Star. Stop by and meet her.”

Ellen Raymond is starting her fourth year with Boomers. She is a native of Washington and currently resides in Burlington. She and her husband Richard will have been married 38 years in June. They have 2 daughters and 6 grandchildren ranging in ages from 3 to 15 years. Ellen has been sewing since she was 8 and loves the fact that working for Boomers increases her sewing skills. Many of the lovely samples in the store are hers. She loves to sew as she says “Just about anything.” Her latest sample meant learning to use a fringe foot. “There is something new everyday,” she says. Ellens youngest granddaughter is named Katrina. She is a regular visitor to Boomers with her mother. Boomer and Misha are very popular with Katrina as Katrina is with all of us.

Did you Know?

Sewing machine accessories, like the machines themselves, had their successes and failures.

One gadget that never quite caught on was a musical sewing machine cover, patented in 1882, that held a player-piano roll and was run by treadle power. The treadle also activated a sewing machine fan patented in the 1870’s and marketed for a dollar. Among the wackier devices was one that actually was used in the 19th century England, that is until the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals stepped in. It was a sewing machine powered by small leashed Dogs on a kind of treadmill. Thomas Edison supposedly invented another sewing machine, though his biography makes no mention of it...that worked on voice power. a membrane mounted level with the operators mouth transformed sound waves into energy. One pair of scissors, invented in France, boasted 18 different uses. It supposedly served, amoung other things, as a straight edge and ruler, a nail file, screw driver, a pen knife, a glass cutter, a wire cutter, an ink eraser, a pattern perforator, and a cigar clipper. * the above article is from Cathey’s Creative Sew Trends, Tucson Arizona.