VIDEOS
Learn about MVOB, our mission, and how to make fleece blankets.
Video for hosts of blanket-making events
Made especially for our friends who are hosting a blanket-making event, this 3 1/2 minute video, recorded by MVOB's founder, Jessica Rudolph, gives quick tips to help you lead your group in making exceptional quality fleece blankets, ready to put in the hands of children and teens in foster care and in need. Thank you for partnering with us to give comfort and love to these young people with a handmade blanket of "their very own."
How to make a fleece blanket (1-minute video - 2025)
How My Very Own Blanket began - TED Talk
Jessica Rudolph's TEDx talk is just under 5 minutes and tells one way how a child comes into care through the school system, and the next part shares how she founded MVOB 25 years ago!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fy5xJ4FdX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fy5xJ4FdX
" Someone made this just for me ?" How special is that?
Video created by Perry Finley
All about attaching our special tags
In this video, Jessica gives the basics about how our special tags are attached to completed blankets.
How to make a "no-sew" fleece blanket
In this short video, Jessica shows the easy steps in creating a fleece blanket. The only tools you need are your hands and a pair of scissors!
Our video tells the MVOB Story
The Story of My Very Own Blanket. This is a great way to introduce volunteers to MVOB. The video (about 6 minutes) shows how MVOB started, why we do what we do, and the many ways that volunteers get involved. (No sound but lots of great photos)
Here's why we do what we do. Every blanket is important.
What it's like being taken away from your home
What a blanket can mean
Jessica talks to a former foster child about the blanket she received at age 2 and what it meant to her.
Belongings in a paper bag
In this video, Betty tells us the story of her husband that contains echoes of the stories of so many children entering foster care with their belongings in trash bags. Her work with MVOB is in honor of her late husband.
MATERIALS
Enhance your event with helpful information and handouts to print.
Full color infographic showing the need for and impact of MVOB's mission, providing comfort and love for children living in foster care through the gift of handmade blankets. Click graphic to download a copy.
Print size: 8.32" x 20.82"
Half-page information sheet (8.5" x 5.5")
Click graphic to download and print.
• Fringe-cutting template (full sheet of templates to print on card stock)
• Blanket kit directions and tag message suggestions
• Ideas for notes to write on your tags
• Blanket kit directions and tag message suggestions
• Ideas for notes to write on your tags
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Thank you for your donation to support MVOB's mission to provide handmade blankets to children in foster care and children in need.
No goods or services are provided in exchange for contributions to My Very Own Blanket.
Thank you for your donation to support MVOB's mission to provide handmade blankets to children in foster care and children in need.
No goods or services are provided in exchange for contributions to My Very Own Blanket.
