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Paula:
Wonder Clips resemble small clothes pins. They are about an inch long, curved on one side and flat on the other. The flat side has quarter and half inch markings.
My reaction on trying them for the first time was wow! They hold the binding flat and very tight. Unlike pins they do not prick you. Unlike the barrette-style binding clips they are out of the way and do not come loose. Due to the flat side, the clips can also be used in lieu of pins while sewing on the machine. I initially had some concern over the price of the clips. However, when you consider what essential tools such as a rotary cutter, scissors, or ruler cost coupled with the amount of time invested in sewing on binding, the price doesn’t seem so high after all.
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Debbie:
There is Wonder Woman, the 7 Wonders of the World, and now there are Wonder Clips. I’ve just finished
my first quilt and was putting the binding on it so I could enter it in the Quilt show. I first tried to use
straight pins, but after sewing about 3 inches and having the pins prick me about a million times I decided
enough and out came the pins. So I then tried the binding clips that remind me of the clips I used to
put pin curls in my hair back in high school. These clips were better than the pins, but they kept popping off and getting lost.
Then I found Wonder Clips and decided I would try them. I fell in love with them immediately: no pin pricks, no clips popping off and getting lost. The Wonder Clips held the binding tight and in place as I sewed. But as a new quilter I wasn’t sure that they were the next best thing since sliced bread and really a "Wonder Clip." Over the Labor Day weekend a few of my quilting friends and I went on a mini quilting retreat. One of the friends is an experienced quilter (over 30 years) and was binding a quilt. I thought this would be a great test for the Wonder Clips. She thought they were great too. So I decided we, the Gadget Girls, had found a great new tool for all quilters.
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