Problem with brushes and stroke paths

[Maysun]

I made a path with the freeform pen tool, direct selected it, then selected a brush and stroke the path. Worked fine.

Did another path, same process, only now I changed the brush settings (spacing, angle etc). For some reason OR I click stroke path and it doesn't do anything OR it strokes the path but with the former brush I used for the other path.

Now what can be wrong and what can I do about it?

BTW. Note that I am a complete beginner in this area.

 

[Maysun]

Ok, so after one hour and a half of changing options and being very frustrated I found out I had to click on the brush and then try 'stroke path'

This is why I hate learning Photoshop on my own.