Oh, dear.
Just to start, the "X item of Y Color" items are ALL from Dated recipes, that is, they are recipes that are being phased out of the game. Whereas Lodestone has all the recipes if you go to www.mooglebox.com and select only (new) recipes it should be giving you a list of recipes that are easier to use to level.

As for levelling up your craft. You will depend on five different sources of materials: Your DoL classes that you will gather stuff by yourself, Your DoW/DoM classes by taking stuff that are monster drops (a fair few things are monster drops only but certain other ones are both gathering and drop), the Market Wards by buying stuff others got to sell, Leves which actually grant you items when you finish them, and the crafting materials given for the Leve itself.

Other than that, there are Leves, which I sincerely, ultimately prefer over any other sort of levelling. I actually levelled most of my Weaver levels using materials I had earned from fighting monsters or that LS mates of mine had done the same with (cotton bolls mostly).