Originally Posted by
quiltedsunshine
I work at a HandiQuilter dealership, and there have been times when we went to set up the 12' frame at someone's house, and we had to take off the closet door and stick one end in the closet to make it fit. Is that an option?
I think you misunderstood the OP question. She was asking about the quilting space on a rack, the actual exposed area on the quilt surface you have to quilt in. In most rack setups, as you well know working in a dealership, you lose both neck space (due to the rollers taking up inches within the machine head neck-span) and side to side space (which you lose for all the reasons various posters have stated) as the available quilt surface area exposed when mounted on the rack.