I'm sorry that your getting frustrated with your quilting lately. I try to get fabric from stash depending on the project I want to do. Then I take it to the fabric store and go to town trying to match it with other fabric and pick the block I am wanting to do. I also do crochet but have put it on the back burner and work on it as needed. I think you should just quilt on the black background material. If you are having problems with it your going to dread every minute you are working on it if you add trapino to it.