fiskar spring loaded 'nippers'
also...i draft help...pass out scissors to anyone sitting down and we all spread them out among us and clip/clip/clip.
also, i started doing some of the clipping as i go along...as in...
if i am making rows 8 blocks long, i will sew a row together, stop and clip the side (joined seams) then make the next row, clip the side seams, attach the two rows, clip the joining row...and i keep going, by the time it is all put together i only have the last joined row and around the outside and it's done...doing it that way means i do not have hours of clipping to accomplish when i really want to get it into the washer!