Patent ID: 7493867
Filing Date: 2009-02-24
Classification: D05B

Abstract:
1. A sewing machine comprising: a needle which moves in a vertical direction; a cloth holding portion which holds a workpiece and moves in a direction orthogonal to the vertical direction; a storage section which stores sewing data corresponding to a plurality of kinds of sewing patterns; a display section having a display region corresponding to a sewing region of the cloth holding portion; a continuous line setting section having a touch panel, wherein the continuous line setting section creates a line on the display region of the display section based on an input operation from the touch panel; a selecting section which selects desirable sewing data from the sewing data stored in the storage section; a pattern arranging section which automatically arranges a plurality of sewing patterns corresponding to the sewing data selected by the selecting section along the line created by the continuous line setting section and displays the plurality of sewing patterns on the display region; a sewing data creating section which creates integrated sewing data on the plurality of sewing patterns arranged by the pattern arranging section; a cloth holding portion moving section which moves the cloth holding portion in order to form the plurality of sewing patterns on the workpiece held by the cloth holding portion based on the integrated sewing data; and a change rate setting section which sets a change rate of sizes of the plurality of sewing patterns arranged along the line, wherein the pattern arranging section arranges the plurality of sewing patterns along the line such that the sizes of the plurality of sewing patterns are enlarged or reduced stepwise in accordance with the change rate set by the change rate setting section.