Counting-Crochet-Stitches-and-Rows-by-the-v-stitch

In this photo, Sigoni Macaroni is explaining how you should be counting your crochet stitches and rows using a swatch of half double crochet stitches. Pictured is a yarn swatch with fourteen half double crochet stitches in each row. You can count your crochet stitches by counting the “v” shape at the top of the stitch or by counting the post of the stitch. With the half double crochet stitch, the turning chain counts as a stitch.