HELP! Illustrator CC Stained Glass effect issue

Hello. I'm relatively new to Illustrator. I'm designing a pair of shorts and have come across a problem. I'm using the stained glass effect to give the shorts a reptile look over a gradient green to black 90 degrees. When I select the stained glass effect, the edges are white and black while the rest of the shorts are the green to black gradient. It's very frustrating why the color gradient does not run to the bleed lines. Can someone please help me? I have created this look in the past using Photoshop and had a bunch of uniforms made up for my customer. I need to make more, but my new supplier cannot use the photoshop file as he needs an editable file in vector. I'm trying to upload the image, but it's not working. The file is 3.6mb. Please help if you can, this is urgent.
Thank you!
Anthony

Stained Glass is a pixel effect, so what's the point of using AI? And even if it wasn't, if there was gradation of some sort your supplier would have to use a printing process based on creating discrete halftones to capture all tones, not sharp contours. Really doesn't make much sense. Either way, make the object with the effect larger and constrain it with a clipping mask. The same would apply for importing a pre-made texture from PS. What you see are simply the edges of the object as AI processes them with all their appearance attributes and then you get all sorts of issues with overprint and such stuff, which is one more reason why using raster effects in AI not necessarily makes sense....
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