Try your own suggestion on a sample piece first to check how your thread tension looks.
Generally for beginning quilters it's easier to put a printed fabric on the back of a quilt so that the print itself will help hide the stitching as you are learning.
Sometimes using a dark backing on a light top will allow the backing to show through the batting to the front, in certain light. There is dark batting useful for altogether dark quilts, that prevents the batting from showing thru, too.
Jan in VA