Yes, first thing yesterday morning the colours were definitely the other way round but generating the correct description, as I triple checked that I had clicked the correct colour choice, with the previous error on a Yankee Candle order. When the YK order arrived, I assumed it was my mistake in being too hasty with the mouse, now I'm not so sure.
What appears to have happened here is that the wrong SKU number has been allocated to the each variant. This would be managed by the Buying Department, who would enter it onto the QVC price file. Normally, a company as large as QVC would have a "publishing" site, which is an exact copy of the live site, and is where you upload all product details in advance. They are then (or rather should be) checked by the person loading them and then double checked by at least one other person. Then it should be published to the live site and checked again.
If this was me sorting this out, I'd have quaranteed the stock immediately last night to stop any further orders from being dispatched, then created a new set of SKUs and set them up as substitutes for the quaranteed orders, then released those orders back into the system and hey presto, everyone gets the right stock delivered to them!