Azalea is a pattern card recipe for a pullover. Azalea was designed by Kerstin Olsson for Bohus some time in the early 1960s. A photo of an original pattern card is shown here and is referenced in Bohus Stickning på nytt The Revival on p. 146 as design 1107 from 1963. The pattern reference in the book and on the pattern card describe the pattern as being made from angora yarn. 10 shades of pinks to burgundy are used in the design. A pattern for a variant of the design called Nya Azalean/The New Azalea is on p. 115 oh Bohus Stickning på nytt The Revival. This and other variants are available as kits from AngoraGarnet. Other pattern cards or test samples may be available to view on the Bohus Stickning section of the DigitaltMuseum.

Project knitted using the Azalea pattern card are Bohus Stickning inspired projects. They cannot be called “Bohus Stickning” projects, as they do not meet following 3 criteria: they must be knitted in the colors re-created by Solveig Gustafsson and/or Pernille Silfverberg based on the original Bohus Stickning colour cards, they must be knitted in the required quality of the yarn (lace, 2ply, angora/merino 600m/100g or Lambswool 450m/100g and of course they must be knitted fully using a Bohus Stickning pattern.

Refer for disambiguation to the article “A Cultural Achievement” in the book Bohus Stickning på nytt The Revival on page 51.