Hi Marilyn,
A queen sized quilt I made several years ago measured several inches narrower than planned. I compensated for the lost inches by sewing a 3 inch strip of fabric (black worked - yay) on the left and right sides of the white bed skirt. When the bed was made, and the center was centered, the bed skirt, bed rail and quilt all looked like they belonged where they were. It was a simple and easy
solution and now seems obvious - but at the time I was totally irked. Even though I was an experienced quilter, it never occurred to me that so many inches could be lost to quilting. About a year later, I was idly measuring the blocks on a quilt I was working on, and realized that there was about a 1/16” difference between a 3” inch quilted and unquilted square - not heavily quilted - just moderate hq. This is not a “fixing on the quilt” type of repair - but it did solve my problem.
Lefty - in Philly