Creating Half-Drop and Brick Repeats
7 The horizontal shift is currently 1/3 of the length of the "brick", while, for this pattern, you need 2/3. Select the shear tool from the toolbox, click the upper side of the control path, and drag the mouse to the right. If you drag too short a distance, the control path snaps back to its current shape (1/3 shift); if too far, the straight repeat appears (3 shifts each of 1/3 of the length result in a shift equal to one full length). You want it to be in the middle (2/3 shift). Simply use the Undo command until you get it right.
8 Now click the free-transform tool again and increase the horizontal size of the control path by dragging one of the right free-transform handles to the right. You want the dark-green rectangle to barely touch the light-green arch on the left.
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