Trying to make a pattern brush

[Document Geek]

I am trying to make an Illustrator pattern brush and can't figure it out. I want it to look like a knitted chain stitch. I followd a tutorial on Lynda, but it's still not coming out correctly. What am I doing wrong? I have the no fill, no stroke box behind my brush parts, but in the resulting brush, the stacking order isn't right.

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

It's the wrong direction.

And you really only need these two objects: invisible rectangle and one of the stitches. Then create the pattern brush, but the direction needs to be like this:

[Document Geek]

Perfect! Thanks so much. It worked great.

[Document Geek]

Hi again!

I'm trying to also create a variation of the brush that has abupt ends. I managed to get it to work for one end, but not the other. What am I doing wrong?

Here's what I tried that didn't work. I have tried a bunch of different variation on this and can't figure it out. Can you assist?

[Monika Gause]

I don't quite understand what exactly you want to do.

Could you also upload the AI file to Dropbbox or the like, so people don't need to build their own version?

[Document Geek]

Here is another attempt. This brush is the one at the bottom of the brushes panel.

Here is my file.

Thank you for your help!

[Monika Gause]

Your invisible rectangle looks like this:

But should be like this:

[Document Geek]

I think I finally got it figured out. Thanks for all your help!

[Ashutosh_Mishra]

Hi there,

Glad to hear your issue is now resolved. I'd also recommend checking out the help article https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/how-to/illustrator-create-pattern-brush.html for more information about creating pattern burshes.

Hope it helps.

Regards,

Ashutosh