To solve such problems that a large displayer is necessary for simultaneously displaying plural different color patterns constituting an embroidery pattern, that it is difficult to distinguish the displayed patterns, when the plural patterns are simultaneously displayed on a small displayer, and that the different color patterns can not be displayed during a sewing operation.

This electronically controlled embroidering machine can separately display plural different color patterns constituting an embroidery pattern on a display 10, successively switch the displayed color pattern to the next color pattern in a preliminarily set order, also display the order of the color patterns and the total color number of the embroidered color patterns concomitantly by the different color patterns, switch from the final color pattern to the first color pattern, perform the displaying and the switching also during the execution of embroidering and sewing operations and restart the embroidering and sewing operations from the displayed different color patterns.