Spring Into Summer Dishcloth Swap!

Wow! Look at all the great stuff my secret pal Carol from Spring Into Summer Dishcloth Swap spoiled me with! What an awesome swap pal! She made me two cloths in blue and natural, sent 3 balls of yarn in blue/brown/natural colors, a great dishcloth pattern book, oatmeal and peppermint soaps from Nature 2 Nature (also brown and blue packaging - I see a theme here!), a blackberry sage wax tart, Le Marche Spice Rooibos tea, and Green and Black's Organic Maya Gold dark chocolate. Wow! I've already ripped open the chocolate and devoured sampled a piece. Wonderful! Thanks so much!

Women in Art

I saw this clip at artist Helle Jorgensen's blog, Gooseflesh, which is an amazing site in itself, but if you stop by there, you must check out The Institute for Figuring and her contributions to the hyperbolic crochet coral reef. After all my going on about plastics and the great garbage patch (more on that later), I am amazed to see the artwork made from and inspired by this mess.

Pardon for those who have seen this entry on my Livejournal, I feel it worth duplicating here since this space is dedicated mainly to my knitting and quilting which I feel are a many faceted medium of practicality, art form, and connection to other women and their creativity and spirit. Not that men don't or can't fit this definition, but for me, I feel a woman's bond within these crafts. I always make room for exceptions, though.

Take 2

This yarn is getting new life as a new sweater. One that *will* fit. The pattern is an old standby, an Ann Norling many-sizes-many-gauges-many-variations on a top-down raglan. It's fast, it's easy. I'm not up for anything challenging now, though I wish I were. While I love my family and my work at home I feel caught up in it and a little worn out. Laundry, dishes, diapers, nursing. Repeat.

We'll get up early tomorrow to hit some yard sales before the good stuff is gone, and hop over to the Purcellville library since the Leesburg library has closed for expansion and the temp site won't open until the fall. Maybe drop by the farmers market as well, if we aren't all cranky by that point. Getting out will do me some good, and maybe I'll find something spectacular at a yard sale.

Tonight I'm slacking in the cooking department, we'll finish off last night's chicken pot pie. It was quite good, I was planning chicken stew but I had buttermilk left over and thought the stew could go nicely in a buttermilk crust. I had some ripe peaches and blackberries, and a cobbler came together nicely as well. Sometimes things just work out nicely like that, other times I don't have a clue what to do.

Aw, Shucks

Well, I had that spiffy little blue cabled cardigan for Anne completed only to find it didn't fit. At all. So, rip rip rip. I was so mad yesterday when I had finished and it was, well, funky, that I couldn't bear to rip it out then (I had even woven in the ends and grafted under the arms!). I had to put it in a drawer so I couldn't even see it until I cooled down, that's how ticked I was. But today is a new day and pulling apart the sweater was actually fun. I have a ball winder, but no swift. No swift? No problem! The computer chair was perfect, and all too amusing to spin around and around. No wonder my boy likes doing it until I'm driven mad.

The yarn has soaked and is drying with weights to get all the kinks out. I love how it looks like Ramen noodles when you pull it out, but I won't knit it back up like that. I'll wind it up tomorrow and try another pattern. Something simple, with a lot of stockinette - I could never work on the sweater long enough because my attention had to be else where, so something I can pick up and work half a round or row and put down without losing my place will be more practical and industrious.



I am holding off on my sock knitting until next week for the start of Summer of Socks 2007. I was ready to dive into the Trekking #126 I've been eagerly waiting to work with - it's like Brach's coconut candies - especially after last night's fiasco. I can wait. I can. Really. Ok, maybe I can't wait but most likely I'll be too busy with work and baby to even pull it out of my stash until next week! I've seen several lovely versions of the coconut candies socks, and I most like the chocolate brown heels and toes, which I have a skein of Lang Jawoll 67 for. For more Neapolitan socks, check out
these, this one, another here, the brown heeled pair here, and one more example here. I guess this yarn color was discontinued but by the power of knitting bloggers and plenty of readers who loved what they saw and clamored for more, Trekking is making #126 again. I bought mine just before it was more widely distributed again, but I paid the list price and not what some people pay for Alice Starmore books.

A week from today and my son is done with 2nd grade. The next week the kids and I are off to Michigan. My parents are in Holland (MI) and that is where I grew up and spent 20 some years, and my son spent his first 4 years. This will be Anne's first visit there outside the womb. I was there twice while I was pregnant with her.

Until then, it's school as usual for my boy, work as usual for my husband, and housework as usual for me. We eat dinner together, then I usually take Jonah and Anne to the pool, then we end the night with stories. Martin and I take turns reading and even the cats and baby sit to listen. We had been going through Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series, though we got stuck on We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea where the plot kind of plodded along and it was too painful for all to force even half a chapter a night. We are now reading the first of the Harry Potter series, and that has definitely grabbed the boy's attention back.

Quilting

The car seat straps are brushing too hard against Anne's neck and I can't find any strap covers in stores around here. I guess making my own is more fun and much prettier, plus thrifty while using up old fabric and batting scraps. Some of the quilting has been fiddly, but I could have done it a different way. The next strap cover's print doesn't have the pattern part I disliked on this one. Also, cabled cardigan is almost done. I need to finish the shawl collar, and stop by the fabric store for buttons and some mesh fabric. More on that later!

One day the housework will all be done and I will not be tired (ha!)

There's still not much knitting going on right now, I'm trying to finish the last few rows of the cabled cardigan but it's a slow haul when I can only get one or two rows in at a time. Instead of showing off a WIP that essentially looks the same as the last time I posted it, I'll put up a photo of muffins and a pre-blog cabled scarf. (See, I've made *something* lately.) The muffins were very good, follow the link and see where I ganked the idea from, there is a link to the recipe in this blog post. I used frozen raspberries since I already had them in the freezer. The scarf is Mission Falls 1824 Wool in Raven (I believe), knit on size 2 or 3 needles and it nearly killed my hands. I made it a few years back, I was more stubborn (ahem, stupid) then.

More on the Ballard Locks, my husband and I were watching a bit of Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch last night, and they're shooting the breeze at the Lockspot Cafe next to the Ballard Locks. Huh. Small world.

Other things I've been poking around on the net for lately, gooseflesh's coral garden, I love it and I really need to learn to crochet. I'm sure it's easy but over 10 years stuck with a knitter's brain and my hands won't make a new muscle memory very easily. I throw my yarn, too, which is comfortable for me but a pain when trying to switch to left handed anything.

I've always wanted a cabled cardigan for myself and I have such a hard time finding *the right one* to make even though I know I could make more. Could this be it?

Also, I've been dealing with my stupid feelings again, especially a long underlying feeling of discontentment. I don't know why I feel this way, so I'm trying to dig into that and clear it out. I think it happens when I'm going through an anxious cycle, like I am now with the baby and her medical conditions and running to every doctor at Children's Hospital (tomorrow is neurosurgery). Things are getting better and with some great improvements on her own part, we may get to leave things alone for now. So, I'm relearning to relax. And it's hard. Trying to remember to breathe and enjoy life. I found this account of small pleasantnesses in yarnstorm's blog very comforting. I'm having to remind myself to make a cup of coffee or tea, to sit down with a book or knitting when the baby naps. Lately, I've been so exhausted that I just sleep whenever she does as well, or alternately, rush around frantically getting chores and housework done. I'm learning to relax if there's dishes in the sink or pureed prune stains on everything. Prune stains aren't on my list of Big Concerns. For more on one of my Big Concerns, take the time to read this article.

A place I called home

If at first you don't secede ...

When I lived in Seattle, I started out in a small Mother-in-Law-Cottage in the Interbay/Magnolia neighborhood. I spent a lot of time just across the street (and over a bridge) in Ballard, even after I moved to the north end of the city. In my mind, I still go to the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks about once a week as I did when I lived there. Ballard felt like home in that big city when I was far away from west Michigan. Every so often this little place comes up and I know I won't be back for a long time.

Knitting? Where?

I'm getting some knitting time in, not much, but what little I manage to sneak in is a great break from the never ending piles of dishes and laundry. It seems that's all I do these days, and nursing a 4 & 1/2 month old. She started her first solid food yesterday, I was hoping to hold it off another month but lately she's nursing all the time and not satisfied. She ate the whole bowl of cereal - maybe 2 tbsp - and had the hang of spoon feeding by the end of it, and was finally full and satisfied for a few hours. Phew!

I try to think of anything worthwhile, amusing, or witty to share but right now there just isn't anything outside of baby stuff and housework, being very tired and sometimes forgetting to brush my teeth. I know I shouldn't worry if the bed doesn't get made or if vacuuming gets put off another day, but it bothers me. I'd like to get more done, not be tired, and have half an hour a day to knit. But I don't, so I'm a little more crabby these days even if I try not to sweat it.

I don't have gorgeous photos of the lovely meals I've lovingly made for my family, it's getting hot and I don't like cooking much in the summer. I tried a recipe for Southwestern corn and shrimp cold soup from the latest issue of Martha Stewart's Everyday Food magazine, but it wasn't for our family's tastes. It was "interesting" and I'll leave it at that. I'm trying to gather more vegetarian recipes, seasonal and summer (read: little or no stove/oven time) recipes, anything that won't take much time to prepare. I love cooking and baking when it's cold out, but these Virginia summers are more than this northerner can bear. Tonight I'll make a pasta salad, I'm just feeling rather uninspired and too tired for anything else.

My son turned 8, it seems like 8 going on 14. Where did all the time go? He isn't my Wee One anymore, he'd probably be mortified by that title now. Yeah, he's begun to have second thoughts that I'm really a cool mom. I'm already a mean mom for things like bedtime and teeth brushing, but I've been able to hang on to "cool mom" for quite a few years. Soon there will be eye rolling and instructions to walk at least 6 feet behind him out in public.

All in all, I'm ok. Tired, but ok. It's not quite spring and not quite summer, we're anxious for more carefree days. In a few short weeks the kids and I will fly back to west Michigan for a three week trip to be with my parents at my childhood home. I look forward to it as much as they (Jonah and my parents) do. We will swim in the lake and roast marshmallows over campfires, swing much too high on the poor backyard swing set. We'll go to the farmer's market for peaches and corn and run into everyone I knew from growing up. It will be good to get back for a while.

Raspberry Pie

I seamed and stuffed this piece of raspberry pie while watching LOST last night. My mother called me this morning, she was very confused about the show. The pie pattern is Dad's Blueberry Pie by Jennifer Tallapeneni and found over at Magknits. I used Sugar n Cream in Wine and Jute. I have so much of this yarn, 2 grocery bags full, for kids crafts, knitting, tying a roasting chicken together and you don't want to know what else. It's the duct tape of yarn.

Fun pattern, just do as it says and don't worry too much. I've been sleep deprived and generally tired of going to see doctors and hospitals so my reading comprehension is running on empty. I also have hypnogogic hallucinations before/while sleeping since sleeping in itself must not be fun enough. The crust part of the pattern threw me for a loop until I stopped thinking about it and just made it.

Berries

The baby and I have been sick with colds this past week, I wanted to make a pie but didn't feel up to it and my husband has been gone with field work which means less pie eaters around here. When there are only 3 pie eaters in this house, one gone is a big cut in pie consumption. Here's some knitted berries instead.

I just received my invitation to Ravelry! I haven't had a chance to poke around it yet, I will have to wait until my wee ones are in bed tonight.

Also, if you haven't seen it at Hello Yarn, she has made the most adorable baby hat ever, period. It's not her own pattern, and it's not originally in English. I saw the original pattern while Hello Yarn's was a WIP, and couldn't wait for the translation to go up. Here it is, Sweet Baby Cap at
Grosblog (pardon if I don't have the title correct, I do not pretend to comprehend Norwegian). So darn cute. I may not be Norwegian, but I have a little Dutch baby who will need one of these hats this winter.

My Dutch baby is not to be confused with the Dutch Baby Pancake.



While I love our '00 VW Passat wagon, I can't get enough of this VW Rabbit commercial. The "spotted" Rabbit is so nifty:

More Dish Cloths

I'm churning out a few more dish cloths, they've been easy and quick to complete. I hope to have more time to sit and concentrate on the cabled raglan cardigan, but I'm just not up for it now and not up for ripping back any mistakes I'd make due to not being up for it.

So dish cloths it is! One is for my secret swap pal, I'll reveal her name after she's received her package. The pattern is Little Tent Dish Cloth, which I thought was appropriate for summer. Can you see the little tents in the upside-down V's? This is such an easy and fun pattern, I think I'm going to make one more before I get into my sock yarn (yeah, yeah...and finish the other few WIP's I have left over). Medical things are settling down a bit, we only have 3 appointments this week and none are in DC so I won't be driving farther than Fairfax.

I've been testing various short row techniques for sock toes and heels, and I'll share more on that later. No use doing any tutorials, there are so many good ones out there and I'll link to the ones I found most helpful when I get my stuff together on short rows.

We're back from our long weekend getaway to Philadelphia, it was good to see my husband's family since the 2 who live in Philly are usually very busy and the other 3 are far off in Montana. Martin and I plan to take the kids out there next summer. Now we're home, the VW has quiet brakes now, and all my post-trip errands have been run except for buying new stamps and a few 1 cent stamps to add to my old ones. The post office was swamped with others doing just the same and there was no parking. I went to the library instead to return a dvd and check out some books on vegetarian cooking. I'm cutting back on meat, but still want to include fish and chicken in our diets (along with eggs and dairy). I need to find some recipes that don't involve 2 hours of prep time and chopping vegetables into tiny pieces. The summer is coming on shortly and I also want to find more no-cook/little-cook/don't-even-think-about-turning-on-the-oven recipes for when it's over 100 degrees.

Oh. The photo. I have done no knitting (outside of maybe 2 rows of a garter stitch dish cloth) since a few posts ago. This is from the other week, where I'm getting frustrated at myself for not thinking how twisted stitches behave. All of the twisted stitches by themselves and to the right side of the garter "ladders" are perfectly fine. It's the twisted stitches on the left side of the garter "ladders" that are wonky. I'm just going to leave it, give it a good blocking when it's done and be happy that hardly anyone will notice, and fewer will care. I love this color and hope I get to sit with it some more soon.

Right now, there's laundry to be folded and the baby will be up from her nap shortly. We have the next few days to do our home thing, then we are back in DC to the ear/nose/throat doctor to evaluate her thyroid. I'm getting better at this, even though I'm thoroughly tired. The kids and I may still get to go back to Michigan this summer if the doctors can agree on holding off any invasive procedures. Most of the time everything seems normal around here, until I'm at yet another doctor or running errands and strangers who see her coo at the sight of a baby then gasp and ask what is wrong with her. I'm getting better at that, too, but it's annoying to be truthful. Just take things one day at a time, I guess. So, all in all, today is pretty good.

I might be taking a break from here, or at least not be posting much for a while. Family and medical issues have my attention now and it's hard to say how long this road will be or how difficult things will get. For those who do know what's happening, thank you for all your kind comments and prayers. I signed up for a dishcloth swap and I'm going to see it through since I don't want to disappoint my pal and it's not a very involved swap anyway.

I hope to be updating again more frequently if only as a sign that things are going well here.

Not much knitting progress, or nothing much to show

Mark with bold the things you have ever knit, with italics the ones you plan to do sometime, and leave the rest:

Afghan
I-cord
Garter stitch
Knitting with metal wire
Shawl
Stockinette stitch
Socks: top-down
Socks: toe-up
Knitting with camel yarn
Mittens: Cuff-up
Mittens: Tip-down
Hat
Knitting with silk
Moebius band knitting
Participating in a KAL
Sweater
Drop stitch patterns
Knitting with recycled/secondhand yarn
Slip stitch patterns
Knitting with banana fiber yarn
Domino knitting (=modular knitting)
Twisted stitch patterns
Knitting with bamboo yarn
Two end knitting
Charity knitting
Knitting with soy yarn
Cardigan
Toy/doll clothing
Knitting with circular needles
Baby items
Knitting with your own handspun yarn
Slippers
Graffiti knitting
Continental knitting
Designing knitted garments
Cable stitch patterns (incl. Aran)
Lace patterns
Publishing a knitting book
Scarf
Teaching a child to knit
American/English knitting (as opposed to continental)
Knitting to make money
Button holes
Knitting with alpaca
Fair Isle knitting
Norwegian knitting
Dying with plant colours
Knitting items for a wedding
Household items (dishcloths, washcloths, tea cosies…)
Knitting socks (or other small tubular items) on one or two circulars
Knitting with someone else’s handspun yarn
Knitting with dpns
Holiday related knitting
Teaching a male how to knit
Bobbles
Knitting for a living
Knitting with cotton
Knitting smocking
Dying yarn
Steeks
Knitting art
Knitting two socks on two circulars simultaneously
Fulling/felting
Knitting with wool
Textured knitting
Kitchener BO
Purses/bags
Knitting with beads
Swatching
Long Tail CO
Entrelac
Knitting and purling backwards
Machine knitting
Knitting with self patterning/self striping/variegating yarn
Stuffed toys
Baby items
Knitting with cashmere
Darning
Jewelry
Knitting with synthetic yarn
Writing a pattern
Gloves
Intarsia
Knitting with linen
Knitting for preemies
Tubular CO
Freeform knitting
Short rows
Cuffs/fingerless mits/armwarmers
Pillows
Knitting a pattern from an online knitting magazine
Rug
Knitting on a loom
Thrummed knitting
Knitting a gift
Knitting for pets
Shrug/bolero/poncho
Knitting with dog/cat hair
Hair accessories
Knitting in public

Summer Dishcloth Swap Questionaire

1 When did you learn to knit? Who taught you?
I learned to knit when I was 15, from an old "Learn How to Knit" pamplet that my mother had once learned from. I taught myself for the most part, but Mom helped with the casting on even though it took her a while to remember how.


2 What was your very first completed object? Your most recent?
It was my first "swatch", a very large one that sort of turned into a small stockinette lap blanket. My most recent FO to date is the Snakes and Ladders gansey.

3 What was the very first thing you sent to the frog pond? (pulled out and started over) Your most recent?
That first swatch/blanket needed to be ripped back a few times when I didn't have the hang of it yet. Many dropped stitches. The most recent ripped out items were an unfinished piece or two I found while sorting my stash and found my tastes had changed.

4 What is currently on the needles for you?
A cabled raglan cardigan for my daughter, some dishcloths, and a baby blanket that I swear I'll complete before the baby is 12.

5 What types of needles do you enjoy working with? What have you tried and hated?
I generally like bamboo knitting needles, in DPN's or circs (but I avoid crystal palace circs - I hate their join, and it is not new and "improved"). I am always in need of needles US 0 to US 3 in DPN's (sets of 5) or 16" circs for socks. I'd love to try the knitpicks circs.

6 Have you knit dishcloths before?
Yes.
1. What was your favorite one? No favorite pattern
2. Least favorite? I ran across a pattern that says "House work sucks" on it, but I like doing chores.

7 Do you use homemade dishcloths or face cloths yourself, or give them as gifts, or both?
Both.

8 What are your favorite and least favorite scents? (For your body, such as soap/lotion/etc)
I don't like a lot of heavy scent. It has to be light, clean, and preferably "natural" in some form (organic is nice, but not necessary). Nothing too heavily floral.

9 What are your favorite colors?
I love brown, especially dark chocolate/coffee brown, I like blues and combinations of light blue and dark brown.

10 What colors (if any) are your bathroom and kitchen decorated in?
White.

11 What other hobbies and crafts do you enjoy?
I quilt and sew, and other miscellaneous crafts with my kids.

12 Chocolate: Dark? White? Milk? Ew?
Dark.

13 Do you like salty treats? What kinds?
Yes, most kinds.

14 If you could go anywhere in the world for one day and spend the day any way you wanted, where would you go and what would you do?
Scotland. See where some of my ancestors came from, walk the land and just sit and look about. Shortbread would be good, too.

15 Do you have any allergies? (Yarns, foods, etc. that might impact what your pal can send)
No.

Maryland Sheep and Wool

Driving to Maryland.

Over the (Potomac) River and through the woods. Well, it was through the woods and over the river.

I dragged the crew along with me. Baby's first big outing, she hated it.

Wait, is this the same as the Monty Python Cheese Sketch?

So many sheep, so little time. I want one.




I want a Border Collie even more, but then I'll have more excuses to get sheep.




I could have watched this all day.

A Bit of Blue

My mother sent me my old rag dolly for my daughter to have, it arrived in the mail today. Here are some peeks at the current WIP's, but I'll be mysterious and leave you guessing, then put them away in the blue trimmed knitting tote. See some of you at Maryland Sheep and Wool! Bye!

Snakes and Ladders gansey, and a new project

I finished the Snakes and Ladders gansey from Beth Brown-Reinsel's Knitting Ganseys, it was off the needles on Friday and blocked and dried last night. It will fit Anne in the autumn, so there will be more photos of this sweater to come when it's actually on the child. I used Elann's Devon and had the right gauge, but next time I make a gansey it will be with a true sport or DK yarn. The Devon calls itself a sport weight, but I'm using the left overs for socks, it's really near a fingering weight. I'm still pleased with it and can't wait to see her toddling about in it.

We are going to DC Children's Hospital on Wednesday for the CT scan to find out if the hemangioma has swelled into the eye cavity, then we will see the specialist the following Tuesday. We were to patch the good eye so as to train the bad eye, but she can't even open the bad eye when the good one isn't open. So, no Dread Pirate Anne for now. My boy has a cold and has had to rest most the weekend when we finally get nice weather, so I pulled out some puzzles and checked out Bill Nye episodes from the library. When I lived in Seattle, Bill Nye lived in my neighborhood and I met him at a political event. My parents are friends with a gal who worked on the show and has her own science books and experiments for kids out, and my parents met Bill Nye at her wedding some years back. When I watched the show in the 90's I didn't realize they taped quite a bit of it in Seattle. When I watch it now, my son and I can point out places we've been to. I believe that dinosaur puzzle was a gift to Jonah from a family I babysat for in Lake Forest Park.

I still have a few unfinished things to get going on, but I bought this yarn last summer for a cabled cardigan I put down on graph paper. It's a 12 month size and should fit Anne in the winter. I couldn't wait to start it any longer. There are only a few other things to finish up so I don't feel too bad about it. I whipped out a sleeve last night watching an Inspector Lynley mystery. I would have done more this morning, staying home from church as Jonah's sick, but housework was the sqeakier wheel.

Postage Stamp Quilt

I have been scattered with this blog, I realized that I had been rushing to get this quilt done, but never put the photos up here. If you've seen them before, I apologize. I am trying to get things organized and put all my crafting here and transition it out of Livejournal, so there will be double posting for a bit. If I get another shot or two of the quilt with the baby, I'll add them to this post. Please bear with me!

Snakes and Ladders

One sleeve left on the Snakes and Ladders gansey from Knitting Ganseys by Beth Brown-Reinsel, I started this in October but I put aside the knitting to finish Anne's postage stamp quilt before she arrived. I seriously thought we were having another boy, and I intended this for Neil Adrian, not Anne Margaret. A happy surprise, though. The gansey is in Elann's Devon color 667, which they don't seem to have in stock at this time but I have plenty left over, a good ball and a half. I might have to get a ball in another color to make striped socks. What do you think, chocolate brown and lemon chiffon? Maybe Antique Blue or Dusty Plum with the brown? Anne will also get a pair of socks to match the gansey, probably plain stockinette.

Brown is my favorite color, I like so many (pale blues and greens, bright red...) but when it comes down to it, I'll have to pick a deep brown. So many shades and hues, pale and milky and rosy like baby's skin, dusty like a mongoose or scaly and variegated like the cobra. Woody and warm (I won't go into the bears now, that's another post), earthy and cool. But I'm a brunette and prejudice to it. If I were blond, I'd probably gravitate to yellow, or coppers if I were a redhead. Definitely more brown to come, such as the yarn in the mail as I write.

I've (minimally) organized my knitting log/record book, and it contains most knitting projects from 2003-2006. Records from 1995-2002 are shoddy, regrettably. I'll start new for this year since the book is bursting at the seams and I'm not happy with it anyway. I'll be in Philadelphia mid-May for sisters-in-law's graduation party, one is finishing an art school and the other a PhD in dance history - what amazing talents they have. Maybe I'll find a record book there, nothing at home besides chain stores or overpriced boutiques. The first weekend in May is the Maryland Sheep and Wool festival, the whole family is going this year. I will have tons to share on that. The end of June will see me and the kids back in Michigan for a few weeks to be with my family, my husband will be working and saving up hours so we can drive to Montana next summer to be with his family. His dad has sent links to job openings in and near Helena as not-so-subtle hints that we might move closer. Even if I were back in Seattle monthly trips would be more feasible. Can you tell I'm getting wander-lust again? Though I never really liked this area to begin with, besides the Blue Ridge just to the west and the small towns like Waterford, Hamilton, Harper's Ferry, and Berryville.