The Quilt of Record, begun in 1986 with the modest goal of depicting the town square, achieved something quieter and stranger this week: with the addition of a square for newborn Juniper Foxglove, it now contains a panel for every living resident of Cozy Town.

The quilt measures sixty-one feet by forty-four feet and can no longer be displayed anywhere indoors except the gymnasium, and even then only diagonally.

“People think quilting is gentle,” said committee chair Henrietta Baste, her thimble catching the light. “People have never attended a border-selection meeting.”

The committee confirmed that panels are updated to reflect major life events, a policy that has produced what Ms. Baste delicately calls “the divorce seam” running through the quilt’s southwest corner.

The quilt will be displayed at the Harvest Festival, weather permitting. It has its own tent, its own insurance policy and, as of this year, its own forwarding address.