I think by now you have probably figured that the quilt is not wide enough for you to side sleep, especially with no wide UQ to over lap. But since you are using a pad, it should be pretty easy to put it to the test. Either in the hammock- or even take the pad inside and lay it on the floor, or just use your bed or couch with no pad needed-- put one edge of your UQ on the pad(or hammock or bed) and lay down with, say with your rt shoulder, hip and legs to the down side and on top of that quilt edge. So that, as you lay on your right side, the quilt is laying behind you and is just barely tucked under you enough to prevent drafts. Then just pull the non tucked edge of the TQ over from behind to the opposite side, the side you are facing.
So, you will be facing the back of the quilt, with the back side opening to your front side. Normally, you would have this side of the quilt to your backside, but temporarily doing it this way will make it easy to see if your quilt is wide enough to cover you for side sleeping especially on a pad.
Do you have enough quilt width to reach down to the the inside bottom of the hammock and/or pad surface, on your front side, and hopefully also be able tuck in at least a bit? And without pulling so tight so as to compress the loft in the area of the left(up side) shoulder? If so, wide enough. If not, need wider.
You probably won't need as much width if using an UQ which is wide enough to overlap, AND if you can lean back somewhat into that side which is insulated by the UQ. Then you can probably get away with it if the quilt is only wide enough to reach 1/2 down your back. However, you will still need a wider TQ if while on your side you don't lean back, and rather are straight up with back 90º to the pad, or even lean somewhat forward a bit.
One last thing to watch out for if experiencing unexplained cold from your pad. If a pad, especially when fully inflated, has valleys where the baffles are not quite as tall as the pad surface. cold air can run down these valleys. In a tent and when using a sleeping bag, the back side of the bag might droop down and fill those valleys. But, in a hammock's pad pocket, the sleeping bag can not get past the hammock fabric to fill the pads valleys. Or, of course, if using a TQ, there might not be any quilt under your back to fill any valleys any way, depending on width. So, cold air might be felt in those narrow valleys. Less likely if the pad is not fully inflated, which allow your weight to flatten those peaks and valleys.
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