Welcome Friends!
The Yarnover Truck is your local yarn boutique on wheels!
We’re typically open two weekends a month. Each stop in a different location and it’s an exciting event every time. We attend every major fiber festival/event in Southern California plus we attend some craft fairs and the occasional farmer’s market.
We also create our own events by partnering with other small businesses, such as yarn shops, quilt & sewing shops, wineries & breweries. Our focus is working with small indie business, in both the yarns we carry and in the businesses we partner with.
Our 107 square feet of space is small but mighty and loaded with yarns primarily in natural fibers including wool, cashmere, silk, linen, bamboo and cotton. Our stock is exclusively hand-dyed yarns and we work with local dyers based in So Cal plus others from across North America. We work hard to have fun and new things on the Truck to see whenever you’re able to come for a visit.
Since we move a lot, we reward those customers who find us with several products that are sold exclusively on the Yarnover Truck. We have specially dyed colors of yarn plus a full line of project bags in fabrics that are only available on the Yarnover Truck. If you can’t make it to shop on the Truck check out our Online Shop.
The Yarnover Truck is also available for private parties. If you have a special event coming up or are part of a group of yarn lovers and would like to have us come to you, we are happy to make that happen!
Maridee Dangcil is the owner of the Yarnover Truck. She drives Debbie, that’s the Truck’s name, all around Southern California bringing our beautiful hand-dyed yarns to areas who might not have a local yarn shop.
She started the business back in 2013 with her good friend, Barbra but is now running things as a solo act . The Yarnover Truck came about from a conversation between these two friends at their Tuesday night knitting group. Maridee mentioned she was thinking about opening a yarn store. She had a name and a location all picked out, but the financial realities of a brick and mortar yarn store seemed overwhelming. During her weekly knitting class at work later that week, Barbra brought up her friend’s yarn store idea. It was always a dream of Barbra’s too, but like Maridee, it always seemed just out of reach. One of the members of the knitting group suggested a yarn truck and immediately Barbra was enamored with the idea. Hours of Google research on mobile retail business and one overwhelmingly long email to Maridee later, they found themselves on Melrose talking with one of LA’s first mobile boutiques. On July 5, 2012 the idea of the Yarnover Truck was born and the Truck launched March of 2013.
About Maridee
Maridee has been crocheting since she was 12. Her grandmother first taught her the craft as something to help pass time during an extended hospital stay. In 2008, she took up the craft again and has now learned how to knit as well. She boasts a wild and crazy stash that sometimes threatens to overtake her entire house. Her husband jokes that she might need to start storing items in the refrigerator very soon. His daughter has started to try and limit Maridee’s yarn shopping – only allowing her to purchase one new skein for every two that she uses. Thankfully, little girls are not that aware of packages coming in and out of the house!
Prior to going full-time with the Truck, Maridee worked in Theatrical Advertising for Warner Bros. Studio for 6-years on such well known films as INCEPTION, ARGO, GANGSTER SQUAD and the HARRY POTTER, SHERLOCK HOLMES & THE HANGOVER franchises plus many more. Prior to coming to Warner Bros. she spent just over three years with Village Roadshow Pictures doing marketing and publicity and almost two years working for Paramount Pictures in their Paramount Classics independent film division.
Before moving to California in June of 2002, Maridee lived and grew up Minneapolis, Minnesota. She earned a BA in Finance from the Carlson School of Management and a Masters of Business Communications Certificate from the University of St. Thomas. While in Minneapolis, she spent almost 12 years working as a marketing and advertising professional for various agencies and companies including Music Matters, Bozell Kamstra Advertising, Select Comfort Retail (Sleep Number Stores), MovitAction and MECC Software.
