Yes this sentence it correct, except there should not be a space between table and the period. :)
You can knit a toy gnome and the difference is you can't knit a clay gnome
If Erika's teammates so happened to give her a lot of reasons to go along with their plan, then the implicit message (or the underlying meaning; 'read-between-the-lines- message) would be that Erika should agree too it because it is a good plan that they were proposing.
