On 8/2/13 8:23 AM, Sue wrote:

If I choose to work a tatting pattern which has beans in
without, do I replace each bead with a double stitch?
(this particular one I am looking at is a string of beads
in place of the chain loop between rings.

Depends on the pattern, and on how the bead is attached.
Some, just ignore the instructions to add beads, some
replace the bead with a picot.  Here, where you are
replacing a string of beads with a chain, compare the size
of a double stitch with the size of the bead you're not
putting in, and calculate how many ds you need.

In most of my patterns, the chain loops have the same number
of ds as the chains.  Statement made without checking; Could
be half the number -- it's been years since I burrowed down
to the simple edging in my go-bag.  Chain loops can vary
quite a lot without forcing the edge to curl.

I'm wondering how the second thread is carried to the other
end of the string of beads -- or, alternatively, where you
are getting the second thread to make a chain loop.

If only one thread is available, you can work small rings
nose-to-tail with the thread carried behind.
http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/~joybeeson/TAT/TATEX03.HTM

Another expedient used in pre-chain patterns is to pick up a
hook and crochet a chain.

--
Joy Beeson
http://www.debeeson.net/joy
http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html
west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A.

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