To provide a sewing machine capable of easily setting the arrangement of the next pattern relative to a reference pattern when a plurality of patterns are sewn over an area wider than the sewable area.

The sewing machine is provided in which, when temporary holding position processing is selected (S65: YES), the arrangement of markers relative to the arrangement of the reference pattern is identified (S67), and the arrangement of the markers at a second holding position is then detected from image data of the markers at the second holding position (S78), and the arrangement of the next pattern at the second holding position is then set (S92).