Gradient mesh tool and scribble effect

Hi
Was hoping some bright spark can help me! I am trying to apply a scribble effect to an object that is colored with a Gradient Mesh. Is this possible and if so how is it done?
I can apply a scribble effect to a normal gradient but not a gradient mesh.
Thank-you
John

Here I made the gradient mesh into a patern fill by draging it into the swatch panel and then fillinf a rectangle path with that swatch it is tricky gettting the fill to fill the whole rectangle without showing the pttern seams.
But once you have it correctly palce you can then apply the Scribble effect if you want to scale it you have to expand the appearance.

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