Hi.
I'm Sarah.
And this is our art assignment.
This is my first year at VidCon.
It's incredibly exciting.
There's so many people here.
It's one of the largest conventions I've ever been to.
Its cool.
Whenever I'm not walking around the expo hall
or up in a panel or something I am basically
helping with make rugs.
And it's amazing.
I brought a shirt from home.
My Trevor Project shirt, actually.
I thought it was time for it to sort of be
recycled, reused into a rug.
So I really liked this assignment a lot.
I love the idea of collaborative art.
Anybody can be a part of it.
And just I feel like this art assignment show,
and Sarah, your screen, kind of makes artists out of all of us.
I was amazed at how much easier it was than what
I thought it was going to be.
And it's kind of addicting.
And like, the atmosphere here just made it to where like,
you have somebody in front of you teaching you
how to do everything.
And then like, in a couple minutes
you're teaching the person behind you how to do it.
So it's really good.
It's very, sort of, community building.
My grandmother taught me how to knit when I was like,
eight or nine.
And I just recently sort of have been
trying to get back into it.
So this really kind of an interesting correlation,
a different way to knit things.
And make a-- this rug is getting huge.
So that's really exciting.
I had some of my friends come with me.
They had no idea what was going on.
But they got to add some shirts as well.
So we are four people out of the sure to be
thousands as a part of it.
Meeting people while doing an art project is always fun.
You're bonding over a mutual craft.
So I love it.
I came here and was just hanging out
in the chill lounge.
And the people here were just so incredibly nice and kind
and just fun and interesting that I stayed.
I did my first loop on the rug.
And I was like, hey, I can do this.
And I did it.
And now I'm like, five shirts in.
And I'm going to do my sixth and seventh in a minute.
It was really fun to meet new people
and be able to make a big art piece that's also a functional.
So I have made a rug before.
And I did learn a lot from making a rug.
That it actually led me into looking up
more things on YouTube on just, like,
how to do things with arts and crafts.
So now I'm just learning so much more about how to make things.
I had a friend who I dragged along here.
And she just saw me cutting the shirt.
She was like, what are you doing?
I was like, making strips then a rug.
Then she started taking the scissors, started doing it
and she went through like, 10 shirts.
Because she was just like, this is just my calling right now.
Like, I don't want to leave.
It's pretty awesome.
Now go make a rug!