Originally Posted by
joe'smom
I'm a bit confused about whether these sit-down models are long arms, or mid arms.
It is just semantics. There is no industry definition for what level of throat space makes a "long" arm.
Handi-quilter does call the Sweet 16 "The best selling sit-down longarm machine on the market today" so they consider it a long-arm.
I think mid-arm was made up by quilters who wanted to describe a machine with a smaller throat space than some of the monsters!