Yet again, John Sharp was influential in a design. He introduced us to D-Forms created
by an architect named Tony Wills. The photograph which produced the original inspiration
was of a 3D structure where a square had been joined to a circle. The square rose
up to a point in the centre and the circle curved to follow the four sides of the
square.
We experimented with joining circles, and other shapes, to squares to make an afghan
rather than a 3D shape. Working in crochet is possible to make several different
polygons with the same perimeter. These can then be joined together stitch-by-stitch.
We tried many different combinations but they all looked much the same and not very
interesting
Eventually the design was simplified to its most basic form and all of the shapes
became squares. Joining the squares in any way other than side-by-side in straight
rows means that they are automatically deformed. Turning half of them through 45
degrees, so that the corner of one joins to the mid-point of a side of another, gives
the maximum amount of distortion.
We went for turning half the squares in this way, leaving the others in the normal
edge-to-edge arrangement, to provide a ‘background’ to be distorted.
