30 minutes of testing and about 2 9 after about 60 minutes of testing the present invention is an about 75 25 blend of cotton and polyester face combined with about 25 75 blend of cotton and polyester back effectively yielding about 50 50 total blend of cotton and polyester open end spun about 2 35 denier two end fleece fabric which had a pill rating of about 3 0 after about 30 minutes of testing and about 2 1 after about 60 minutes of testing the pill rating for the fleece fabric made according to present invention is clearly better than the pill ratings for other open end spun two end fleece fabrics also the pill rating for the fleece fabric made according to present invention is better than the pill rating for the air jet spun two end fleece fabric moreover the pill rating for the fleece fabric made according to present invention is nearly as good as the pill ratings for the air jet spun three end fleece fabrics by comparison high cotton open end spun and airjet spun two end and three end fleece fabrics have a pill rating of about 3 5 to about 4 0 e g high cotton open end spun two end fleece fabrics have a pill rating of about 3 5 high cotton air jet spun two end fleece fabrics have a pill rating of about 3 5 and high cotton three end fleece fabrics have a pill rating of about 4 0 another way to reduce pilling is to increase the denier of the polyester fiber used to make the blended yarn as discussed in u s patent application ser no 09 256 981 filed feb 24 1999 now u s pat no 6.