My mother-in-law had one like this. She would stretch the backing tight and tack to the frame, but just lay her batting and backing out smooth and pin it. As she quilted, she would roll the quilted part out of the way so she could get to the rest of it. I was used to seeing my mom's, which was something like 2 saw horses with poles between them and the backing, batting and top all stretched and rolled on the polls, so mil's seemed very awkward and strange to me. She did some beautiful quilting on it, though.