Just realized I spent a whole weekend trying to fix a single page's grain direction
I was putting together a small leather journal, a gift for a friend, and everything was going smooth until I got to the endpapers. I'd cut them from this beautiful marbled sheet I got from a shop in Portland, but when I pasted them down, one just would not lay flat. It kept bubbling up, no matter how much I smoothed it. Took me, I kid you not, about six hours of fussing (and a lot of muttered words) before I finally held the sheet up to the light and saw the tell-tale lines. The grain was running the wrong way compared to the text block. I'd been so focused on the pattern I completely missed checking it. Had to scrap that sheet, recut a new one the right way, and start over. It's one of those basic things they teach you, but it's so easy to forget when you're in a groove. Anyone else ever get tripped up by something that simple?