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[Steev]

Forgot I'd posted the picture of the complete carving. Merle, what reminded me was this morning my wife made the exact same comment. I knew the eyes weren't quite right, but I was going to leave it and call it done, now I guess I'm going to have to address the problem. I appreciate constructive criticism...

[Steev]

It looks like there's plenty of material for the mortises of the crossbars on the square sections. The chair legs you have look like pretty standard sized pieces.
Unfortunately, I don't think there's much that can be done about where the knot has fallen out except do a new one from a piece of...

[Steev]

I haven't spent much time with it,I just saw the measure function this morning when I was looking into what it can do. It does seem to have a transform menu with scaling as one of the options....

[Steev]

A bit late to the party, but inkscape has a measure function with a simple drop-down in the menu to select units. It is free, at least in Linux, haven't checked for Windows.
https://inkscape.org/release/0.92.3/windows/

[Steev]

Only a year later and it's done.
I got a way through the finishing and decided I didn't like my finishing or her hair texture so I carved them off and re-did them. There was also quite a period where the carving was shoved to the side of the bench because I was so disappointed by how it was looking....

[Steev]

Hi,
I don't see you have much choice but build the chair and hope the legs hold up. 2cm thick walnut will be quite strong. You could add cross bars between the legs to make the whole thing more stable but that would mean either an ugly joint or taking even more material from the legs.

[Steev]

I've used several and not found there to be any noticeable difference.

[Steev]

It does sound like the wood is absorbing some of the paint and it is running along the fibres. A wood sealer is the answer.