Square Sato Rose

incredible incredible incredible sato rose!!! i find making a pentagon first extremely irritable, howd you manage to make it out of a square? did you make the pentagon shape and simply fold in the corners? i am using a 9 3/4 inch kami paper, one problem when doing it the "traditional way" is that the middle of the paper (where all the creases intersect) will sometimes create a tiny rip hole which i too find irritable. so, with a 6 inch tant paper, about how wide is the finished product? thank you