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Best Print On Demand Products to Sell on Etsy in 2026

0h 10m video Published Sep 18, 2025 Transcribed Aug 6, 2026 M Money With Mak
Beginner 5 min read For: Etsy sellers and print-on-demand entrepreneurs looking for trending product ideas and practical design tips.
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In this video, Mac shares two print-on-demand products that are performing exceptionally well on Etsy, especially in Q4: embroidered sweatshirts and woven blankets. He provides market research data, design tips, and practical advice for sellers to capitalize on these trends.

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Introduction to Q4 opportunities

Mac introduces the video by highlighting the Q4 season as a prime time for Etsy sales due to gift purchasing, and promises to share two products that sellers should list immediately.

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Product 1: Embroidered sweatshirts

The first product is embroidered sweatshirts, which have become more accessible to POD sellers thanks to Printify's new large print embroidery option. Mac shows examples and notes that these are generating significant sales on Etsy.

[02:06]
Market research on embroidered sweatshirts

Using the EverBee Chrome extension, Mac shows that embroidered sweatshirt listings are making hundreds of sales per month, with some earning up to $17,000 monthly. He emphasizes that even simple text designs sell well.

[03:14]
Designing for embroidery guidelines

Mac explains that POD embroidery requires following specific color codes from Printify. He demonstrates how to vectorize an image and adjust colors to match the guidelines, ensuring accurate thread colors.

[05:01]
Creative design examples

Mac shows a design combining two trends: ghosts at a campfire and the silly goose trend. He also mentions other designs like 'I'm literally just a girl with a bow' and suggests targeting professions with custom embroidery.

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Product 2: Woven blankets

The second product is woven blankets, which are print-on-demand but have a high-quality, substantial feel. Mac shows examples and notes that they are in demand on Etsy, with customizable options like names and patterns.

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Market research on woven blankets

Mac shares examples of successful blanket listings, including a customizable 'grandma' blanket earning $1,000/month and a medieval cat design earning $8,300/month from a two-month-old listing.

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Pricing and personalization

Mac notes that larger, higher-quality products like blankets justify higher prices, and that personalization (names, dates) increases willingness to pay, leading to higher profit margins.

[09:14]
Recommendations and niche ideas

Mac recommends listing both products, suggesting pattern designs for blankets and trendier prints for sweatshirts. He encourages sellers to explore niches like home decor styles (bohemian, Scandinavian, nautical) and book-related designs.

Mac confidently recommends embroidered sweatshirts and woven blankets as top products for Etsy sellers in Q4, backed by strong sales data and the potential for high profit margins through personalization. He encourages viewers to act quickly and leverage these trends.

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Tutorial Checklist

1 03:27 Create or select a design image for embroidery.
2 03:40 Vectorize the image using a tool like KD Flows, choosing the number of colors (e.g., 10).
3 04:07 Use the dropper tool to change each color to the exact color codes from Printify's embroidery guidelines.
4 04:35 Remove background and download the final design.
5 04:48 Upload the design to Printify and start designing the product, ensuring colors match the guidelines.

Study Flashcards (7)

What is the first product Mac recommends for Etsy sellers?

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Embroidered sweatshirts, especially with large print embroidery.

00:45

What tool does Mac use for market research on Etsy?

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EverBee Chrome extension.

02:06

Why is it important to follow Printify's embroidery guidelines?

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Because embroidery uses thread, and specific color codes are needed for accurate printing.

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What is the second product Mac recommends?

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Woven blankets.

06:25

How much revenue can a successful embroidered sweatshirt listing generate per month?

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Up to $17,000 per month.

02:45

What is the benefit of personalization (names, dates) on products?

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People are willing to spend more, leading to higher profit margins.

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What design trends did Mac combine in his example?

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Ghosts at a campfire and the silly goose trend.

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💡 Key Takeaways

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High revenue potential

Shows concrete data that embroidered sweatshirts can earn up to $17,000/month, demonstrating the product's profitability.

02:45
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Embroidery guidelines

Explains the technical requirement of using specific color codes for thread, a key detail for POD sellers.

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Medieval cat blanket success

A two-month-old listing earning $8,300/month shows the viral potential of niche designs.

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Personalization drives profit

Emphasizes that custom names/dates increase willingness to pay, a principle for higher margins.

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[00:02] now to make money, especially because of the season that we are in and with Q4 have a lot of people purchasing products, looking for gifts, and we have today's video, I'm going to share with you two products that if you don't have

[00:18] them listed on your Etsy shop right now, I would highly recommend that you do so. They're sitting on my lap. I'm trying to I'm going to show you some ideas and reasons why, backing in the research,

[00:32] if you're new to my channel, hi, I'm Mac. I post videos talking about ways to make money online, and all things to do with Etsy. And I'd love for on YouTube. So, make sure you're subscribed if you are not already. Now,

[00:45] your time is valuable, so I'm going to jump right in. And the very first one is most successful in, and I'm sure you actually have it listed on your store right now, and that is sweatshirts. But stay with me. In particular, embroidered

[00:59] buttshirts. So embroidery is huge on Etsy. It always has been a thing, but it has been more difficult for us POD sellers to get our hands on embroidery because not always was it available to us using printon-demand suppliers like

[01:13] us using printon-demand suppliers like Printify. But now Printify has updated sweatshirts. and they allow for large print embroidery, meaning that you can print on a larger part of a sweatshirt and you can make really beautiful

[01:26] things. So, I have some examples here of embroidered sweatshirts that I got and I'm absolutely in love with this one because it is for the Halloween vibe. And as you notice here, the print is much larger on the shirt and it's all

[01:41] embroidered on there, but the print is in the large middle half of the shirt. And when I tell you that these are going crazy on Etsy, there are so many fun designs, so many cool ways to be showcased in your designs as well. And

[01:53] the fact that we can sell embroidered products to this quality without holding inventory is huge. And I will say that in my shops and in others that I help, I have noticed a lot of the sales are being generated from the embroidered

[02:06] sweatshirts versus just the typical DTG printing. As you can see for a search for embroidered sweatshirt, you can see here that they are making really good sales. I have my EverB Chrome extension on here, of course. And you can see this

[02:18] one has doing 300 monthly sales, 61 monthly sales, 33. And what's really cool about this is a lot of these are just text and they're selling that well. Um, and they offer a lot of custom stuff, too. Like this listing is killing

[02:31] it and has just custom embroidery on the sweatshirts. And if I click this, you can see that they are making yeah almost 10k a month with an embroidered custom shows you people are willing to pay for the embroidery. Same one here. This is a

[02:45] the embroidery. Same one here. This is a pretty simplistic design. $17,000 a month in revenue. And I guarantee if I went and searched in my sourdough era with a typical DTG print, which is just um like a flatlay print using ink, it

[02:59] embroidery that people are paying for. Now, there are some guidelines that you have to follow when you are doing print on demand with embroidery. So, keep that in mind. And I did actually download Printify's guidelines and use them when

[03:14] I was designing with specific color codes because it is actually thread. You taken from the computer. And so, in order to get Printify to print it are going to want to follow those. So, I'm going to show you how to change a

[03:27] design to hit your embroidery guidelines. cuz sometimes you if I were to just upload this design, Printify may not select the correct colors. So, I'm doing this. So, this is just an image that I have that I made on KD flows of

[03:40] two ghosts. And what I'm going to do is vectorize the image so that I can use these colors that are from Printify. So, just going to grab it and hit vectorize. how many colors. The more you do, um, the more control you have over what. So,

[03:54] I'm going to do 10 colors and hit vectorize image. Okay. So now I'm able to actually select and change different things and colors about this design. So that it's broken it down and I'm going to go through and one by one change them

[04:07] to the exact color codes of what is here for print guidelines so that the computer knows exactly which colors to print with the thread. So selecting this dropper tool, selecting the black to make sure it's the same black. This one

[04:19] purple. And you'll kind of have to figure out what's what by clicking on do that. I'm literally just selecting the dropper tool and selecting the color And then once you do all your colors, you can go through and just make sure

[04:35] that they're all the same as I showed up. We can go through and remove background download. Go to our product on Printify. Start designing. Oops, I think I changed the coffee pink, but just so you get the idea here. And so

[04:48] then you can see here the colors are all the same as I exported versus if I had Printify would have assigned the colors for me automatically. But now we know that this is going to print exactly as it is because we use the specific color

[05:01] codes. So this is a beautiful one. Um I actually combined two different trends here. Um as you'll see on Etsy, a lot of the ghosts at the campfire thing was trending, but then I also saw the silly goose trend is just still killing it.

[05:15] So, I thought, why not do two goose dressed as ghosts roasting marshmallows, right? Kind of genius. If I were to redo this, I would put tails on their little butts. But you get the point here. And it just came out really, really great. I

[05:28] also have some other examples, too, of the same sweatshirt. And these are just saying, "I'm literally just a girl with a bow." It's a more simplistic design, a textbased design with a bow. And this is also beautiful and well done as well.

[05:43] This is in the color white. And then I also did a cute little bow print on the sleeve here, which I thought was just so cute and girly for an extra touch. So, just to show you that that is an option of something that you could do someone's

[05:58] name, a date. I think this is a really great opportunity to target specific types of professions. So, think doctors, school teachers, school counselors, gym teachers, all of that. and then have a custom embroidery print on the side,

[06:12] whether that's the year or their name, you get the point. Um, here it is in pink as well because I had to do that for this design here. Thank goodness Printify did bring back that or did introduce the large embroidery print

[06:25] because it is definitely a game changer for us POD sellers. Next product, I will have to show you a farther away shot, but I have it right here on my lap and that is these woven blankets. Guys, I absolutely love this product. I think

[06:39] absolutely love this product. I think it's so beautiful. How good. Okay, this one obviously only has a pattern on it. However, there is so much room for creativity with these blankets. I think it's so cool that this is a print on

[06:53] demand product, but it's basically just a woven threaded blanket. You see the threads here? Absolutely beautiful. And there is a demand for these on Etsy. sellers are selling these blankets. As you can see on the best sellers of

[07:07] these, here's a beautiful example. This is a blanket that says grandma and it's customizable. Okay, so on this listing, do a little spying with there ever be listed for 5 months. They're making $1,000 a month with it. Um, it is

[07:21] for a new listing. And they're giving you all these different options to make your blanket and customize it. So, I think that's a really great idea. Here's another one that's customized with names on it. Or you can also just do patterns

[07:35] like I have. That's pretty successful as well. See this one here with the ravens? different types of dogs, different zodiac things. I think that would sell really well. Here's one with moons and stars that's selling pretty well. Here's

[07:48] another one with a bunch of books. So, this could be a really cool idea, too. Um, with books, it's becoming more and more of a high populated thing on Etsy. type of design, but then when someone's name in the middle, genius. a great gift

[08:03] for book lovers right there in the SEO. Really great uh niche to be in. Here's It's not a woven blanket, but you could definitely still get the same idea from that, right? Um here's one with fish on it. Definitely something that I think is

[08:17] trending and that Etsy is going to be pushing because a lot of them have Etsy pics and popular now badges. I don't know what this one means. It's a medieval cat, but wo check out that number. 8 8,300 a month from a two-month

[08:33] old listing. That is incredible. And their price is pretty high and people are buying. Okay. I think with products like this or I don't even think I know the quality is like a little bit better, you know, and it's also a bigger product

[08:46] rather than just like a t-shirt or a mug. It has more like substance to it, you know, and so people are more apt to be okay paying higher prices. And always keep in mind that when customization or personalization as in a custom name date

[09:01] that people are always going to be willing to spend more on. So it's always an opportunity for you to have a higher profit margin with products like that more time. So these two products I definitely am confident in and I would

[09:14] recommend for you to list on your store. Not only in the numbers but just because and there's great ways you can implement products. I think for these ones like the blankets, a pattern design obviously

[09:28] get you some sales coming in. Just pick a niche and kind of dabble into it. If right off the bat, um I would say more into like the trendier prints and then also going into like book or like just

[09:42] blanket in their home. Think of different type of design styles like different type of design styles like bohemian or Scandinavian style or um nautical, right? There's so many avenues you can tap into with home decor

[09:54] everything organized on your Etsy shop, guys, it's okay if you steer from your niche a little bit. Just keep everything clean, keep it looking good, and different. So, hopefully one of these products got you some inspiration for

[10:08] your online store. Thank you so so much for watching and I hope to see you in subscribed if you're not already so you don't miss out. And of course, everything I talked about today will be linked below, including both of the

[10:21] Printify embroidery guide and also Everbe, which is the Chrome extension that I used for my research today. Thanks again for watching and I'll see Thanks again for watching and I'll see you in the next

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