Just playing devil's advocate here, and not saying it's right to sell a kit without a pattern, but I guess the business model of the F & P kits was AT ONE TIME aimed at subscribers of the magazine. So if there was a pattern in a magazine that you liked, you could go the the back of the magazine and then get the kit. This assumes you had the magazine.
But times have changed - electronic commerce and all, and now you can buy the kit even if you had not seen the pattern in a magazine that you owned.
Thank you for contacting F & P.