Bobby Award Nominations!
March 13th, 2009
Have you noticed something new in the Ravelry footer?
Bob’s little ears mean only one thing: nominations are open for this year’s Bobby Awards!
The Bobby Awards are the unofficial Ravelry awards, organized and run by the moderators and members of The Bobbys Group here on Ravelry! With categories chosen by the group and ranging from “Best Handspun” to “Funniest Single Forum Post” to “Best Disaster,” there is sure to be something on Ravelry you would like to nominate for a Bobby.
This year, Ravelry got involved with the nominations and Casey made a handy nominator - since the site has grown so much since last year’s Bobby Awards (which were huge!), we wanted to make things easier on the mods and be sure that every Raveler who wanted to participate and nominate something for the Bobbys would be able to do so.
You can check out the categories and their descriptions on the Bobbys nominations page. If there is a project, pattern, person, image, forum post, etc. that you would like to nominate for a given category, you can nominate it by pasting in the URL in the “link” field, making sure that the right category is selected in the green box, adding a comment if you wish, and clicking the nominate button.
If you happen to be looking at a page on Ravelry that has a Bobbys category and you’d like to nominate it, clicking on the Bobbys icon in the footer will take you to the nominations page with the link automagically filled in for you. You just have to be sure to select the appropriate category before you hit the “nominate” button!
Nominations are open until March 31… after that, the voting for the winners will begin! (We’ll have more info about that later.) There are even prizes for the winners! If you are interested in donating a prize, you can contact Jesh to let her know.
We’d like to give a huge thank-you to the moderators of The Bobbys group here - it’s a lot of fun for us to get involved with a big group project that is open to all Ravelry members. Thank you to Jesh, Kateyj, knit2gether, smittenknitten, telcontar, ThatOtherRedhead, and Veriton!
Have fun!
March 13th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Bob is adorable. Absolutely freakin adorable. WANT THAT PUPPY!!!!
March 13th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Yay!!! Great announcement. Bob is so cute with the ball!
March 13th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
The imaginative, creative thinking, and you are a part of our group and we are happy you are here, and we will never let you forget it people are AWESOME. I feel your love. OMG I love Ravelry!
Jess and Casey have a darling BOB dog and even he is our friend. He can kiss me anytime. GO RAVELRY, I WILL FOLLOW!
March 14th, 2009 at 12:05 am
This looks like so much fun! How can I look at last years awards? I don’t know how to find it on Ravelry.
March 14th, 2009 at 5:51 am
I loved the Bobby Awards last year and still have a long way to go filling in nominations for this year.
BTW, that is one of the cutest pics of Bob I’ve ever seen. Bob + ball + nom nom nom = epic win!
March 14th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Excellent!! And thanks to my favourite laughing fool [RedPlaid](person) :)
March 14th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
i nominated anniebee (moderator) for organizing, collecting and assembling knit squares to be sent to Alison Hyde(she was having major surgery) - For a while, unbeknownst to us in the group, Anne was having her own health issues at the time. I think she went above and beyond the call of duty. a very generous soul for another very generous soul. I wasn’t quite sure whether you received my nomination. which is why I am sending in this comment! thanks
soozie
March 14th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Last years awards can be seen in a page in the Bobbys Group. Here is the direct link, enjoy!
http://www.ravelry.com/groups/the-bobbys/pages/Bobbys-Awards-2007—Hall-Of-Fame
March 15th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Is there a way we can follow the nomination process and see what projects/people/groups/etc are being nominated?
March 16th, 2009 at 8:36 am
I love my black pug dog, Drusilla, but I just think Bobby is one of the cutest dogs I’ve ever seen. I LOVE this picture of him!
March 18th, 2009 at 9:34 am
I think one of the Bobby categories should be “Best Variation of an Existing Pattern” - like when People take Eunny’s Venezia and make it into mittens or something like that. Just a thought.
March 18th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Can we nominate Bob for cutest mascot/awesome dog/best chew-toy chewer??
March 20th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Why haven’t there been any issues of Ravelry in the past month?! Where is Auntie Bubbopants?
I miss her.
Deborah
March 20th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
LOVE the poster! Seriously, Bob is the cutest.
And Yay! Bobby Awards! :)
March 30th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
This is perfect, I now have a great excuse to trawl through Ravelry for hours on end - I’m looking for people and things to nominate!
April 1st, 2009 at 5:47 am
What a great idea!
July 3rd, 2009 at 2:53 pm
When do we see the results of the 2009 Bobby awards?
July 23rd, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Wondering the same when will we know who the winners are for the Bobby Awards?