Singer Featherweight 222 Operators' Manual
The manual is split into multi parts. Pictures are the original but the type has been reset for clarity. Attachment instructions are listed separately.

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Chart showing the relationship of types of fabrics, thread and needle sizes and machine stitches to the inch. All needles 15 X 1.
Types of fabric Thread sizes Needle sizes Stitches/inch inside seams Stitches top stitching
Very thin silk, Muslin,Cambri,.Lightweight Delicate Fabrics etc

100 to 150 Cotton
50 Silk
80 Mercerised darning Cotton

   9     20   25 to 30
Fine Calicoes, Linens, Shirtings,Fine Silk Goods etc
80 to 100 Cotton
50 Silk
50 Mercerised Darning Cotton
     11       16         20
Plastic materials
50 to 100 Mercerised Cotton
    11     10      12
Shirtings, Sheetings, Bleached Calicoes, Silk and General Domestic Goods, Light Woollen Goods and all classes of general work
60 to 80 Cotton
50 Silk
50 Sylko
    14     12      18
All kinds of heavy Calicoes, Drill, Woollen Goods etc
40 to 60 Cotton
    16     10      12
Tickings, Heavy Woollens, Trousers, Boys' Clothing, Corsets, Cloaks, Mantles, Heavy Coats and Heavy clothing Generally
24 to 40 Cotton
60 to 80 Linen
    18      8      10
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TO SET THE NEEDLE
(See Fig. 14)
Turn the hand wheel over toward you until the needle bar is at its highest position, and loosen thethumb screw A in the needle clamp. Insert the needle into the needle clamp, to the left of

UPPER THREADING
(See Fig. 15)
Turn the hand wheel over toward you until the thread take-up lever 6 is raised to its highest point. Place a reel of thread on the spool-pin at the top of the machine, and lead the thread into the thread guide 1 at the left, down, under and from right to left between the tension discs 2. Hold the reel tightly with the right hand and with the left hand pull the thread up under the take-up spring 4 until it enters the retaining fork 3. Then pass the thread up and back of the wire thread guide 5 and from right to left through the hole in the take-up lever 6, down into the eyelet 7 at the side of the face plate, into the
the thread guide, as far as it will go, with the flat side of its shank to the left, as shown in the illustration. Then tighten the thumb screw.
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lower wire thread guide 8, into the guide 9 in the needle clamp and from right to left through the eye of the needle 10, leaving about three inches of thread with which to commence sewing.
To obtain best results it is absolutely necessary that the needle should be of the size stated for the number of cotton, linen or silk, as shown on page 15. If rough or uneven thread is used, or if it passes with difficulty through the eye of the needle, the machine will not function satisfactorily.
The SINGER* Needle Threader saves time, trouble and patience and is invaluable to those having defective sight.

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