Photorealistic Christmas Hat
Just open blender and put the prefer models into your scene by clicking File -Append - and then go to your downloaded folder.
For smoothly working with the mid poly version, I recommend you to leave to particle systems as at it meant be, not shown in the viewport.
If you want to make some changes at the strands of fuzz, be sure you increase first of all the amount of viewport display to 100% in the particle system settings.