Originally Posted by
gale
I'm glad you asked this because I was planning a 96 x 96 quilt for my queen size bed. Overkill. I took out one row and it's now 84 x 96 which should be fine for us.
If you don't use a pillow tuck, that gives you 16 inches on one end, and 12 inches overhang on each side - assuming you don't lose anything in the quilting, which often "shrinks" the size of the unquilted piece.