A trip to Joann's crafts and I came back with some color bundles of fat quarter to get my imagination working. I have also restarted with success the Dao board as well. Starting over with the black background was the way to go I think it looks a lot better. Changing the orange to yellow for the grid also helped...
It is a bit wonky in the frame but I think it'll straighten out once its done and I wash and iron it.