Patent ID: 8897908

Claim:
A sewing data creation apparatus, comprising: an area specification portion that specifies at least one area in which a plurality of stitches are to be formed, each of the at least one area including a plurality of locations where two stitches that extend in different directions intersect; and a sewing data creation portion that creates sewing data for forming the plurality of stitches in each of the at least one area specified by the area specification portion, the sewing data creation portion creating sewing data for forming an overlapping portion in a case where the at least one area specified by the area specification portion includes a first area and a second area, the first area and the second area being two areas that are contiguous and that are to be sewn with different types of threads, the overlapping portion being a region in which at least one of the first area and the second area is enlarged in a direction that extends across a boundary line between the first area and the second area, such that a portion of the plurality of stitches to be formed in the first area is one of intersected and overlapped by a portion of the plurality of stitches to be formed in the second area, wherein the plurality of stitches to be formed in each of the first area and the second area include a plurality of stitch layers, each of the plurality of stitch layers including a plurality of first stitches and a plurality of second stitches, the plurality of first stitches being a plurality of stitches for which a stitching direction is the same, the plurality of second stitches being a plurality of stitches that link the plurality of first stitches, the stitching direction being different in each of the plurality of stitch layers, and the overlapping portion is formed such that the stitching direction of at least one of the plurality of stitch layers in the first area is substantially parallel to the stitching direction of at least one of the plurality of stitch layers in the second area, and at least a portion of the plurality of stitches included in the at least one of the plurality of stitch layers in the first area one of intersects and overlaps with at least a portion of the plurality of stitches included in the at least one of the plurality of stitch layers in the second area.