Thrift shop yarn

This weekend I decided to take a look in the Nelson IODE thrift shop, and for the first time, I actually came across some yarn in a thrift shop. Granted, most of it was acrylic - there was a jumbo skein of Bernat "no dye lot" yarn on top, but there were a few skeins which looked to be at least partly natural fibres. Any skein without a label had been wound on a ball winder. This is some 4 strand yarn that feels like it contains some cotton. I have been told that you can just knit with this type of yarn as is, but I'm guessing it would be waaaaaay less of a pain in the @ss if it was spun together - any spinners reading this post feel free to comment. Some pale beige boucle; I've never used boucle yarn before. I think I will try dyeing this stuff. Some good Canadian yarn. It certainly looks like there are 2 separate strands; I have to take it apart to see for certain. A bag for Somerset to play in. The whole bunch - $9! On the sock front, starting to turn the heel at 9 inches worked better - I seem to have deleted the picture taken from the side. I also added in 3 extra sets of short rows. Now I have to figure out how tall I can make the cuff (and still have enough yarn left for a second sock of the same size).