The only thing I don't like about using hair clips instead of the clips at the lqs, is that I found one of my hair clips had started to rust (and I had never used it for anything but this). I thought the lqs was just tryint to upsell their clips when they said these were specially made not to rust your quilt so easily. So, I just bought 3 packages of the quilt clips, spread out over 3 months and using my Joann's coupon each time. I haven't had a problem since. But I love the idea of using large binding clips for the thicker quilts. Going to walmart today!