Should I bother with FTS in my situation?

[Max Arbos]

Hello,

I have a table that contains a few varchar columns. I want someone to be able to search for results that have terms in them that they enter but they are only allowed to search one column at a time.
So if i am looking for 'red', I would choose 'Color' from a drop down list that would then tell the query to only search that column.
Right now, that search would return 'red', 'reddish', 'red-green', etc..

Things work great now with FTI on each column, but I am now wanting to be able to allow a wildcard at the front and back of the search term so results like: 'bluered', dark-red', etc..would also be returned. FTS only allows it at the end, and since I am only searching a column at a time, is it really worth it to even bother with the FTI search method to get the function i want?

thanks.