When I first saw the instructions for loading a quilt on a longarm frame ( way before I had one of my own), I about gave up on the idea of getting into longarm quilting. But I persisted, and watched a few videos, and plunged in to do it. Now, it isn't even much of a worry for me, I have my method down pretty well, and it doesn't take as long as it once did. Everything goes pretty well as long as the ends of the backing are SQUARE. That is the most frustrating thing, when you load the backing and find out after all that work that it isn't square. It means taking the whole thing off to square it up! After that, I can deal with pretty much everything else, except a severely lumpy top. This is why I hesitate to quilt other people's quilts, I'm not 100% sure what to do with waves and lumps!