I bought wonder clips from Amazon for $16.79 for a hundred of them and I think it is well worth the price.
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I have been using hairclips for years. They do an excellent job to hold the 4 sides of your quilt together, while
placing the top, batting, and background fabric together -- before you begin with basting. Followed by handquilting. Hairclips come in various sizes which you can choose from. |
I used to pin my quilt while binding. But, I got tired of getting pricked by the pins and I have animals so I have to be concerned with missing pins. I use both the binding clips and bolt buddies. The binding clips are a lot cheaper than the hair clips. In my opinion they both work great.
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Just because you buy something from a "quilt" place, it is not necessarily better (usually just more expensive.) I buy hair clips @Dollar General and they work just fine. I can not tell any difference except, of course, the price! IMHO
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I just started using the larger quilting clips and love them for holding binding in place to hand stitch
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Use the hair clips and really like them.
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what is the ladder stitch ?
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I love the wonder clips. They hold very securely, and they also have 1/4" markings on them. They have them on Amazon fairly cheaply. I think they are well worth the money, I have even used them for other things in an emergency like closing a potato chip bag
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Originally Posted by Peckish
(Post 5902203)
I use hair clips. I have no need for those expensive clips, and I only use 3 or 4 at a time. Just make sure you don't leave them in the quilt for extended periods of time. I have a friend who left her clips on a binding for a couple of years and they rusted on her quilt. :(
Also, the wonder clips have lines imbedded in them so that you can see how far away the seam allowance is extending. These lines are helpful. But now I don't use them as much since I found out about Elmer's School Glue. |
Depends on the hair clips - I use both and I don't notice a difference, but some little girls hair clips that my daughter uses in her hair are very flimsy. Just pay attention when you're buying them. But when I bought binding clips there wasn't a huge difference between the price of the "real" quilt binding clips and hair clips, so pay attention to that, too.
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