Spent 2 hours sewing a text block only to realize I had the grain direction all wrong

I was working on a new novel binding at my kitchen table in Denver and got halfway through the signatures before my spine felt stiff. Turns out I cut all my folios against the grain instead of with it, so the paper won't lay flat. Has anyone else screwed up grain direction on a big project and found a way to fix it without starting over?

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miab161d ago

my friend did this to a 300 page cookbook and just called it "artistic