I bought some King Cole Zig Zag last Open Day at the Centre for Knitting & Crochet. It's 50/50 wool and nylon, destined for hard-wearing socks, and a wonderful rainbow. Two balls with the same shade and dyelot number, but looking very different. One was apparently short repeats of the colour. To check it out, I ran it through the sock machine as a tube. Due to the ball dropping on the floor, it pulled the tension a bit so I got three different patterns. I took the ballband off the second, thinking this was long repeats (the unknitted ball in the photo), only unound a little bit and immediately saw, yes it was going to be exactly the same as the other one.
Moral - if there is no photo attached of the yarn as knitted, don't believe apparent long colour runs in the ball - unwind some, even if it annoys the shop owner!
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