It's not often you get to take out your pliers for your knitting.  That's a shame.  I like my pliers, and I want to use them more often.  I found a way to sneak them into Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet, Volume II as part of the Vanessa antiopa Cowl.  (That pattern is part of the knit along that's going on now, so if you want to get your pliers out too, feel free to join us.) I used my pliers to make double-sided buttons.  You can see here how I used three of them to hold the cowl together. This is [...]