Hi! I have a long arm, encountered the same problem.....it took me forever to pin a quilt on....then I discovered "Red Snappers" sold at some quilt shops....they are long red "rods" for a better word, plastic...you sew a channel in your leaders and attach enough snappers together to go through the channel which stays there...then you attach the quilt, batting and backing by snapping a rod on top of all onto the channel...it takes only a few moments to attach a quilt and seconds to take one off. I found that I would make a mistake loading and after pinning one whole section going to the next one would have to take all pins out and it took me forever to load a quilt. They are expensive but well worth it! I paid $80.00 for a set and after I bought them, she went up $10.00 but it has made my life so much easier....I tried the zippers and did not care for that as well. Good luck!! Hope this helps and I'm not too late with a reply....