Sewing machine

A sewing machine which carries out a sewing operation so that a sewing pattern selected from a plurality of sewing patterns is sewn, the sewing machine comprising:

• a display device;
• a display data storage device which stores pattern display data utilized to display each sewing pattern on the display device and pattern group display data for displaying on the display device a pattern group indication mark which is indicative of each of a plurality of pattern groups obtained by classifying the sewing patterns and numeral display data for displaying pattern numbers assigned to the respective pattern groups;
• a selecting operation device which selects one of the sewing pattern groups and further selects any one of the sewing patterns contained in the selected pattern group, the selecting operation device including a number input device for inputting the pattern numbers;
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• a display control device which, when one of the pattern groups has been selected, causes the display device to display the pattern group indication mark indicative of the selected sewing pattern group on the display device firstly in an enlarged size and subsequently in a reduced normal size, based on the pattern group display data of the selected pattern group,
• wherein the display control device causes the display device to display one of the pattern numbers in an enlarged size together with the pattern group indication mark when said one of the pattern numbers has been input thereto by the number input device after selection of the pattern group.