The quilt pictured in my avatar is square. It's on my bed right now. And for that reason I now know that I like them rectangular. And here's another quirky thing....I put the rectangular ones on my bed crossways. I know, sounds funny. The square ones always want to slide down off the end of the bed and I'm constantly trying to cover myself in the middle of the night. If I put a rectangular one on crossways I don't have that problem. There's no weight hanging off the foot of the bed.