I have to second narcodog. When I first started tying I bought one of those material packages and it was not very good in quality of material or the range of size I wanted. I just picked a couple of pattern's I wanted to tie and bought the material's for those flies. When I would move on to other pattern's I would just add more material to my collection for those pattern's. You wind up with a collection of quality material without a big expense upfront.