Love your bright fabrics, right up my alley. Also love all the various blocks. I can relate to hip issues as I fell down my basement stairs twice in one month and finally after a year of 24/7 pain I went to an orthopedic doctor for a cortisone shot. It seemed to work for about a month but now the pain is coming back just not as bad so I'm not going to worry too much about it.
Good luck getting it quilted but sounds like you might be doing it on your regular sewing machine and not on a quilting machine. I have deep respect for those that can do that..................I can not so I depend on a robotic quilt machine as my hands shake so badly and getting worse by the day.