Using images in pattern brushes no practical control space?

Hi!
In Illustrator there was a long-awaited my new feature. Brushes with rater images - WoW!
Thank you very much.
I learned this and practice what quenches my "wow" ...
I have problems that I can not understand, I will be grateful for the practical help.
1. Pattern Brush from the image.
— When I create a brush with the image of a pattern I would like to use negative values to between images there was a space.
Illustrator does not allow for such a value?
Example Adobe does not explain the problem, but raves (very good) features art Brush with img.
http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/whats-new.html
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-illustrator-cc/using-images-in-brushes/
Best Regards!

Bingo! Thank you Monika!, you're right. Correct positioning of the rectangle has the effect of which I had in mind with the corners.
Thank you for the "old way"

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