She smiled sweetly in pastel cardigans, chatting gently about yarn weights and showing off her stitched creations.
But when crochet queen Amanda Machin revealed she had checked herself into a Swiss suicide clinic, what unravelled was more knotted than the trickiest tangle of thread.
The 65-year-old - known to her 50,000 online followers as crafting influencer Amanda Bloom - recorded an emotional farewell before signing out at the controversial Pegasos clinic, where assisted death is legal even without terminal illness.
'By the time you see this, I'll be with my Jenny,' she said quietly. 'I know this is going to be a bit of a shock.'
Amanda's only child, Jenny Machin, died in 2017 from a brain tumour aged just 19. She never recovered from the loss, documenting her grief in heartfelt social media posts over the years.
