To provide a sewing machine reducing the labor of a worker and improving sewing accuracy of sequential embroidery.
This sewing machine M acquires position information of two points, an optional point on a datum line L and a datum point P formed on a cloth C retained by an embroidery frame 11, corrects sewing data related to an embroidery pattern according to the position information so as to correspond the acquired position information with a reference axis Lv and a virtual datum point Pv which are associated with the embroidery pattern displayed on a display area, sews the respective parts of the embroidery pattern included in the embroidery area R based on the corrected sewing data so as to correspond the datum line L and the datum point P formed on the cloth C retained by the embroidery frame 11, with the reference axis Lv and the virtual datum point Pv surrounded with the sewing area R displayed on the display area 22a and included in the area, and sews the whole of the embroidery pattern by combining the divided embroidery patterns to the cloth C.
Yoshio Arafune