We went on a road trip to the Grand Canyon. I wanted to make an unique tote bag of the places we have visited and loved before. Some of the designs I had purchased, but the designs for the Grand Canyon, Mesa Verde, Royal Gorge, 4 corners, Grand Lake and Rocky Mountain National park are ones I designed from my own photographs. I used some heavy duty black fabric for the bottom and top band. I tried to keep it as light as possible so I only quilted the front and back and to pre-washed flannel. It was fun to make, took forever to do all the squares. The front has more of the national parks and attractions, while the back has more personal places from our own trips. I found this really neat fabric of road trips and matching license plate fabrics I used for the lining and large pocket. It's not perfect, but it came pretty close to what I had hoped.
P.S. I loved all your pictures you posted.