bears and squares

I am toying (sorry) with the idea of going into mass stuffed animal production for the craft-site market to see if i can earn a few quid. It's about time i stood on my own two feet again.
I seem to have problems with 2D to 3D visualisation. I struggled all of last week, looking at patterns on the web, studying bears (real beautiful brown ones) and teddy versions of my own. Eventually i came up with this creature - only the head so far, more canine than ursine:

I shall have to be careful about the inevitable cat hairs when i go into business.

Also, i've begun another knitted bear. It's a pattern i used before for a bear for my friend's baby. This one is bigger as i have used bigger wool and bigger needles - just wanted to see if it grew larger proportionately. 'Real' eyes, noses and, most excitingly, cotter-pin joints are on order! I have a lot of strong opinions on teddy bears and one of them is that they must be articulated if they are to do their job properly.

Presumably there would be copyright issues if i used somebody else's pattern? I'm keen to make my own modifications anyway.

....and finally, 4 more pieces for the blanket:

lino print

I've finished part 3 of the lino triptych (always wanted to use that word) that i began last year. It's the square one in the middle, 30x30cm. Needs a bit of tidying up.

My lino-cuts are gradually getting neater but something's gone very wrong with tools lately; mine were all blunt so i ordered some more from ebay - what i thought would be years' worth of size 1's - but found the wings of the blades were sort of facing forward instead of backward. So i returned them saying they must be seconds, then bought a box from Fred Aldous. But these were the same. I think a different company is making the blades and they just don't cut. At great expense i bought a 1mm, wooden handled gouge from GreatArt made by Dastra. This is a joy to use but doesn't cut as finely as i'm used to. Does anyone know what happened to the old cutters that fitted into a red-plastic handle? I used to put the 1's and 3's into a vice, heat them up and squeeze them with pliers to get fine cuts.