A sideways garter stitch shawl with tentacular edging, and optional beads. This unusual shawl recalls Harry Potter’s Venomous Tentacula, a green, spikey plant with mobile vines that grab living prey, shoots that expel venom, and a poisonous bite. The sideways edging is made by repeatedly binding off and casting on stitches, creating a pattern of “holes.”
Any yarn may be used, but to ensure a symmetrical shawl and to prevent running out of yarn, weigh your yarn first and follow the note in the Designer’s Suggestions.

Techniques Used: knit, increasing/decreasing, casting on (cable CO and backwards loop methods), beading (crochet hook method).

Size: 50” wingspan by 20” depth; tentacular edging is approximately 6” deep. The size may be customized by using a varying amount of yarn.

Other Materials:
US 6 24” circular needles, or size to match gauge.
Tapestry needle.
Stitch marker (1).
Size 1.15 mm crochet hook, for placing beads, optional.
120 size 6/0 seed beads, optional – this number will change if using more or less yardage.

For questions or to show off your shawl, please visit my Ravelry group The Knitting Vortex.

A clarification regarding Row 3:
When binding off 7, you will use 8 stitches, with the last remaining on the righthand needle. This remaining stitch is the first in the next series of K3 - thus technically you will only knit 2 more stitches, then begin binding off again.