Health Record Book Cover – Free PDF Sewing Pattern

Looking for a useful little sewing project to protect a baby's health record book? This free PDF sewing pattern gives you a fabric health record book cover: lined, with inner flaps and a press-stud closure.

A practical project for a birth gift, a baby shower, or simply to keep the book clean through the first years.

✨ A useful project for babies and children

The cover keeps the health record book clean and nicely protected. The flaps hold the book in place, and the press studs keep it closed in a changing bag or a pouch.

This project is for you if you want to:

• sew a genuinely useful birth gift;
• use pretty cotton scraps;
• practise clean seams and topstitching;
• set press studs;
• make a personalised, long-lasting accessory.

✂️ What you need

• cotton, 35 × 16 cm, for the bottom outer;
• cotton, 35 × 11 cm, for the top outer;
• 33 × 26 cm, for the flaps;
• 12 × 26 cm, for one endpaper;
• cotton, 40 × 30 cm, for the lining;
• fusible interfacing Vlieseline H250, 40 × 30 cm;
• one pair of press studs (snap fasteners);
• press pliers.

📐 Pattern details

• one size, made to fit a standard health record book;
• seam allowances of 1 cm (3/8 in) included;
• no size layers to switch off: the sheet prints as it is;
• two pieces are cut on the fold, the sheet shows where.

📦 What you get

• the free PDF pattern for the health record book cover;
• the file EN-A4-Health-Record-Book-Cover.pdf, 4 pages, fully in English;
• the same pattern in US Letter (4 pages, both test squares included);
• also in the download: the French, German and Spanish A4 versions;
• a step-by-step video tutorial.

🎥 The video tutorial

Julien sews the cover in the Couture Enfant video. It is in French; YouTube's auto-translated subtitles can be switched on.

🗣️ Pattern language

The sheet is fully in English: piece names, cut quantities, grain line, place-on-fold and all printing instructions. Only the video is in French.