I was trying to assemble a half-drop repeat in AI for the first time and was having a hard time finding a good tutorial on it until I found this class (specifically parts 6 and 7)....it was EXACTLY what I needed. I have Creative Cloud but have not used the pattern maker yet. I also prefer to know how to assemble the repeat by hand, so this class was perfect!

 

Here's the repeat:

 

And here's an example of the repeated pattern:

 

Thanks for such a valuable class!