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I am making my first piece of furniture; a Stickley library table with mortise and tenon joints throughout I assembled the pieces dry and everything fit together with little movement. The joints could of been tighter but for my first project of this magnitude I was happy with them. Held together lightly with bar clamps, the table minus the top was a nice square box. I glued up the two end sections with light clamping without incident. They are square. I connected the end sections by gluing in the top rails and lower shelf; again with just enough clamping to keep the tenon fully inserted into the mortise. It sat on the basement floor, square with all four legs on the floor. Now it rocks just a bit because it has a slight twist along the long axis. I can force all four legs to the floor with little effort and hopefully mounting the top will force it square again. My question is, what happened? Did it warp? It is November. The weather is changing. I am in the basement where the temperature is not as uniform as the rest of the house.