Patent ID: 8763544

Claim:
A sewing machine comprising: a transfer device that is adapted to move a work cloth; a sewing device that moves a needle bar, to a bottom end of which a needle can be attached, up and down; an operation device that includes an operation member and that outputs an output signal in accordance with a tilting operation of the operation member, the operation member being adapted to be operated by a user, and the output signal specifying a position where a unit stitch formed by at least one stitch is sewn; a unit data generation device that generates unit data being data for forming the unit stitch, the number of sets of unit data being based on the output signal output by the operation device; a sewing data generation device that generates sewing data in accordance with the output signal output by the operation device and the unit data generated by the unit data generation device, the sewing data including coordinate data that specify a movement direction and a movement amount of the work cloth; a transfer control device that causes the work cloth to be moved by driving the transfer device in accordance with the sewing data generated by the sewing data generation device; and a sewing control device that causes the unit stitch to be sewn on the work cloth by driving the sewing device in accordance with the sewing data generated by the sewing data generation device.