I do make my quilts to be used on beds--with our beds having deeper mattresses, I use a bedskirt and measure each bed to I get it large enough. I have a 14' frame on my long arm so size is not an issue. (although I find those large ones a PIA to work on--just so big!) On my bed, I use a lightweight blanket and then a jacquard solid coverlet then the quilt. Don't have dogs on the bed--we live in the country and my dogs bring home dead raccoons, etc and one rolls in the neighbors' cows' manure!--so they don't even get into the bedroom--but my DH is rough quilts--he grabs (in his sleep?? that's what he claims) the top and yanks it up and then rolls over--I have one quilt that he yanked all the stitching in the top section on his side---so my rule is the quilt on our bed is over the coverlet and NOT pulled up around our necks! (a 20" "whisker protector" does nothing for the design element!)