I used to have my Juki on a frame, but found that I wasn't enjoying the quilting process due to tension issues, thread breakage, and any number of other issues. Turns out that something was out of whack on my machine and when I got it back I never put it back on the frame. If everything is working correctly, it seemed to me to take more time to put the quilt/batting/backing on the frame than the actual quilting.