My friend is a longarmer and I often help her with some the quilts she recieves. We have a mutual friend who is very prolific, but wasn't awfully picky about quality. Many, if not most of her quilts had wavy borders that were viturally impossible to lay flat. Even though we knew that she didn't really care if they were flat, it was still very frustrating and time consuming to quilt these. We tried explaining how to add borders to reduce the bulk, but it just didn't sink in. As a matter of fact, she said "Well they always look great when they come back from you, so they can't be that bad. Finally we came up with an idea to help with the problem. We asked her if she wanted to watch one of her quilts being quilted and when she said yes, we asked her to help load the quilt. That was all it took for her to realize what we were talking about. She asked us to show her how to apply borders and quite honestly it is now a pleasure to quilt her quilts! Everyone is happy and the quilts look great.