817 Combining object blends with a pattern

when you combine object blends … with patterns inside Illustrator. … And along the way we'll take these line textures … that we created in the previous movie … and we'll turn them into this seamlessly repeating … tile pattern that you see in the background. … We'll also adjust the color and we'll add a gradient … if only for the sake of variety. … and then turn off the pattern layer for the time being. … So that you can see how everything fits inside of a hexagon. … And also notice that the hexagon is flat at the top … and at the bottom. … And that'll become important … when we're choosing a shape for our pattern. … Now go ahead and click on the guides layer … in order to make it active … and then select the Type Tool. … And you may recall when we first created this object … last week that I measured it by drawing a hexagon … and we came up with the width of 600 points, … I can remember that, and a height of 519.62 points. … Go ahead and select that value and press Control + C … or Command + C on a Mac in order to copy it to the clipboard …