Patent ID: 7069871

Claim:
A method of embroidering a stitched pattern with a processor-controlled sewing machine, the method comprising: placing fabric that is to be embroidered in a position in relation to a threaded needle on the sewing machine; providing a plurality of embroidery elements having pre-programmed embroideries, each embroidery element comprising a starting point and an end point corresponding to a start point and end point of a corresponding physical embroidery element, each embroidery element further comprising a directional change by a predetermined angle in a succeeding embroidery element; creating a pattern from a sequence of the embroidery elements prior to or during embroidery of the pattern, wherein during creation of the pattern embroidery elements are added to the sequence, wherein each added embroidery element is rotated at the predetermined angle in relation to a preceding embroidery element in the sequence; rotating each physical embroidery element by an angle equal to a sum of the directional changes of all preceding physical embroidery elements in embroidering the pattern with the sewing machine; and embroidering the pattern with the sewing machine according to the sequence of embroidery elements.