Originally Posted by
PaperPrincess
I have also seen many people use a neutral whole cloth (purchased or hand made) as the bedspread, then use any size quilt they like over the top. You can turn a small square throw on point, or fold a larger quilt and place it at the foot for a runner. This way you can add a splash of color without having to make a quilt to fit the whole bed.
FF covered the size quilt a frame can accommodate, but you can always have the main 'body' of the quilt and the drops quilted separately then join them using a QAYG technique after.
I do this sort of. I have an off white bedspread that goes to the floor, and I can put quilts of any size on the top of my bed and they look good. Even my quilts with white backgrounds don't look bad on top of my bedspread. For awhile I was even just putting quilts on top of quilts....as long as the bottom quilt didn't show. I thought it was a good way just to store some. But I got tired of that.
Dina