EPP with Clips

The Clips
This English paper piecing (EPP) method is from "Liesel's Hexagon Technique" sold at the Paper Pieces website. The book, co-written by Hilde Klatt and Liesel Niesner, comes with six clips (see photo below) -- enough to make a hexagon. I hope to find out where these clips are sold as I'd like to graduate to octagons. I'm hoping they are a standard office supply. Let me know, if you see them for sale somewhere.

Unique Features

The book gives detailed instructions for using the clips and making the basting and whip stitches. The photos are invaluable since the English is a bit rough. I've tried several methods for EPP and, for me, this is the best. Like some other methods, the basting stitches only go through the backs of the hexagons. Since the stitches do not go through the fronts or the papers, you can skip the time-consuming removal of the basting stitches. Leaving the basting stitches in place, also makes for stronger construction. One of the best aspects of this clip method is that it makes incredible precision possible; you can place fussy cuts exactly where you want them. Other unique aspects of this method include:

• Making all of the fabric folds look alike (often the last fold is done differently from the rest).
• Stitching clockwise -- if you are right-handed.
• Making a stitch that creates an X, which holds more securely than stitches commonly used for EPP. To see the stitches, click on the photo below.
• The stitches do not go through the papers. That means, when It's time to remove the papers, you do not have to remove the basting and that will save a lot of time.The only down side to this method is that sometimes the papers fall out but only after much manipulation which is why I'm not bother by it. By the time a paper falls out, a piece is already sewn to other hexagons on all six sides.